Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 2 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 3 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 4 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 5 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 6 | I had always intended to do it at some stage . ’ |
| 7 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 8 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 9 | As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people . |
| 10 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |
| 11 | Luckily the girls also managed to provide me with some nephews to balance it up a bit . ’ |