Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) .
2 The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape .
3 Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them .
4 It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog .
5 and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see .
6 They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery .
7 In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract .
8 Therefore , it is appropriate to start at the market portfolio and consider it in some depth .
9 " I 've been meaning to pop in and see you for some time , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on .
10 Most importantly , we need to avoid situations where the horse is likely to express its aggression towards us , at least until the horse has learnt to respect and like us to some extent .
11 ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters .
12 Because of the mismatch between processor and transput device speeds , we are led to consider uncoupling the devices from direct processor control and providing them with some degree of autonomy .
13 It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism .
14 Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case .
15 Taking a bit more than you can happily copy with in life can result in feelings of distress and overwhelm you to some degree .
16 The National Directors of each country attend the meetings at which the distributions are made , and discuss them in some detail .
17 All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading .
18 ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’
19 erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this .
20 Many other permutations were possible but the future of the house did cause worry , There was even a rumour that the local authority was to acquire it and turn it into some kind of museum .
21 We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar .
22 Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information , and placing them into some sort of context .
23 ‘ And then at 18 , or in my case at 17 , they take you away from everything you know and stick you in some broom cupboard of a bedsit .
24 Maman put down the loaded fork with a sigh and turned to Twomey at the sideboard : " Please give Miss Nicandra a clean plate and help her to some spinach . "
25 ‘ We invited him to appear and talk us through some film of him as a boy , and he did n't know she was going to be there .
26 Many users panic when asked to press Ctrl or Alt and another key and treat it as some sort of test of agility !
27 Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance .
28 In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ .
29 For the product to be viable this line must have a steeper slope than the total cost line and intersect it at some point .
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