Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 3 | Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind . |
| 4 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 6 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |
| 7 | The day is gone when a girl waits around till some man needs a wife . |
| 8 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 9 | There 's a pause while a young constable comes in with some tea ; the man at the door gets his cup , and McDunn and I sip ours . |
| 10 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 11 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 12 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 13 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 14 | He said the alternative view was to take the standpoint of a fully-developed person looking back to some point marking the moment of creation . |
| 15 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 16 | Oh yes , I had a gentleman turn up for some physio on his arm . |
| 17 | They were out at work often till late evening , but gave us the run of the house and William had the chance to get on with some schoolwork . |
| 18 | That is because a large number of cases on public nuisance arise out of some misuse of the highway ( inherently unlawful ) and due to the growth of statutory offences touching such matters as health and environment . |
| 19 | Hardly an issue of a computer magazine goes by without some mention , editorial or advertisement , of desktop publishing . |
| 20 | ‘ It would appear the dog got out in some way , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 21 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 22 | I went to the store to check up on some things , and saw that eight Kandinskys which I had bought from the widow of Kandinsky 's secretary were missing . |
| 23 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |
| 24 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 25 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 26 | It would be churlish to suggest that either RWC or the Italian Federation fell down in some areas because of a lack of will to make the event succeed . |
| 27 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 28 | The Russians should have the courtesy to move over for some miles into middle Asia , where there is an abundance of space that lies close to them but far from us : let Russia give us sufficient coast on the Black Sea so that , from there we can resettle our beggars and peasants in Asia Minor … |
| 29 | She has already suspected that Othello 's erroneous view of Desdemona is a malicious fiction put out by some Machiavel : and — as we know , but Iago evidently does not — she loves her mistress . |
| 30 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |