Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |
| 2 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 3 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 4 | Bernstein 's work has come in for some strong criticism recently . |
| 5 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 6 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 7 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 8 | The Royal Society has now come up with some concrete recommendations for broader-based science education and postponement of specialisation . |
| 9 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 10 | I know that many of you have already come up with some interesting ideas on seventy fifth theme . |
| 11 | I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has come up with some further suggestions . |
| 12 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 13 | Mind you we 've now caught up with some more traffic which is going even more slowly . |
| 14 | Around the Old Executive Office Building , where the NSC staff had their offices , North was remembered as a man who seemed always caught up in some dark drama : leaving for the airport , constantly being paged in meetings , ‘ looking like a ghost ’ in the corridor . |
| 15 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 16 | Due to jamming , however , the tether could initially only be wound out to some 230 metres and , although it was subsequently freed , another attempt was cancelled to avoid the risk of having to jettison the Italian Space Agency satellite which had been safely recovered . |
| 17 | Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise . |
| 18 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 19 | But she and John had moved on to some other vantage point . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean I 'm suddenly going to be whisked off to some other dimension ? |
| 21 | No gallivanting about privateering , and getting my head shot off by some greasy Spaniard . " |
| 22 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 23 | gave a lecture and all she came in with was some notes written out on some full scape paper and some papers for the over head projector |
| 24 | The coffee , of course , was awful and the cheese sandwich I had enough to buy was probably made out of some new plastic rather than the milk churn . |
| 25 | So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment . |
| 26 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 27 | Time and time again your average punter gets ripped off by some incompetent half-wit whose main aim seems to be to sell as many boxes as he or she can . |
| 28 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 29 | A syllabus , a methodology , a plan of work , an outline study drawn up by some central authority , no matter how enlightened , imposed upon teachers is to be rejected . |
| 30 | All of a sudden they have kids to put through college or they 're shacked up with some old wreck of a husband . |