Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 3 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 4 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 5 | It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 7 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 8 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 9 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 10 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 11 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 12 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 13 | It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly . |
| 14 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 15 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 16 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 17 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 18 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 19 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 20 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
| 21 | Accordingly , he considers that individuals have no procedural rights to participate in what are plainly policy decisions , beyond their right to participate periodically in the election of governments — unless , of course , such rights are specifically conferred on them by some statute . |
| 22 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 23 | We 'll see how much fight is left in you after some time in the dungeon . |
| 24 | saying she 's spoke to you about some development plan or something I she said shall I bring it round to you , I said no I 'll ask . |
| 25 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 26 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 27 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 28 | The landing strip had been described to me in some detail . |
| 29 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 30 | This has to be suggested to her with some care , without giving her the impression that you think her sudden collapse into illness is in any way imminent or inevitable ; and it should not be suggested at all if it is felt that it might upset or frighten her . |