Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this article I intend to shed some light on the behaviour of a specific linguistic phenomenon , deixis , in a specific kind of discourse , the lyric poem . |
| 2 | I got to have some beef in that role . |
| 3 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 7 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 8 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 9 | I want to get some feel of how serious it is . |
| 10 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 11 | Region I want to make some comments about the UNISON er section of the report , because er I think it 's concerning me that er we 're basically not getting our act together . |
| 12 | Zapp is impatient of other academics with tentative minds , who begin articles , ‘ I want to raise some questions about soand-so . ’ |
| 13 | By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity . |
| 14 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 15 | I hope to make some progress with this next week . |
| 16 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 17 | ‘ There is one key area in which I hope to have some success over the next year and that is in bringing the clubs and the union closer together ’ . |
| 18 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Every year I like to do some kind of challenge to raise money for charity and to inspire others to raise money as well , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 20 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 21 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 22 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 23 | This nearly led on to another story , but as Chairman of the meeting , I decided to get some order into things ! |
| 24 | I meant to get some bits for us , I might have to go back |
| 25 | mm , sorry , I still have n't got any elastic , I meant to get some elastic for that bloody trousers , oh oh I 've got to order dad some trainers I think , I might have a bath |
| 26 | ‘ I meant to get some food on my way home , but I got held up at college , ’ she explained , examining various other articles in the fridge with distaste . |
| 27 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 28 | I managed to scrounge some tobacco at Brigade H.Q and was soon handing it over to the Frenchman . |
| 29 | I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind . |
| 30 | I managed to steal some clothes from a butcher fastened in the stocks . |