Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
2 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
3 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
4 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
5 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
6 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
7 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
8 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
9 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
10 | ‘ I recommended the player through a contact , so I have taken some flak from my management team . |
11 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
12 | do a job so you 've got some training |
13 | Okay so you 've had some interviews , you 've got some more interviews coming up ? |
14 | ‘ So you have given some thought to the kind of man I am , have you ? ’ he asked with silky satisfaction . |
15 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
16 | Section 2.10 , Process Shutdown on System Shutdown , describes what to put in this command file , once you have created some LIFESPAN Processes . |
17 | Note that once you have put some commands into LIFESPAN_SHUTDOWN , your system shutdown procedures should always specify YES for site-specific shutdown procedure ( parameter number 4 to SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN ) , unless you are performing an emergency shutdown and can not allow the system the time to execute the LIFESPAN_SHUTDOWN commands . |
18 | Although we have answered some questions , our work has presented us with many more . |
19 | He says it 's going well so far , although we have had some problems with ticket touts . |
20 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
21 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
22 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
23 | do n't seem to of done , so we have done some work on job description , here , I mean it 's not been typed up anyway |
24 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
25 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
26 | Although they have made some ventures into the high street , their major specialism is the finance of international trade and they deal extensively in the foreign exchange market . |
27 | but , so they 've got some sort of cover |
28 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
29 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
30 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |