Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm in that sense ah perhaps it 's a bit easier to take some sort of action . |
| 2 | Pay-per-view channels were buying up exclusive rights to the really big bouts and this left the regular channels desperate to find some way of increasing the number of championship fights . |
| 3 | The government voted on July 7 to return some 350,000 citizens displaced by the civil war to their pre-war homes . |
| 4 | He will tackle the half-marathon on July 7 to raise some of the £10,000 needed to fly two children , both under two , to Teesside for operations on their cleft palates . |
| 5 | The Sunday observance law was relaxed in May 1989 to allow some public transport and agricultural work , marriages , funerals and family picnics to take place on Sundays . |
| 6 | Otley leapt to his feet eager to practise some passion as the strains of ‘ La Paloma ’ came throbbing out of the music box . |
| 7 | He spent most of his time with his godmother , which left Theda free to do some long-neglected tasks for herself , for her meagre wardrobe of old — and some cast-off — clothing required frequent mending , and , there being so little service , she must wash her linen herself . |
| 8 | In a scene in Mo' Money sure to offend some gays , Damon and Marlon revive similar characters to scam a jewellery shop . |
| 9 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 10 | NTT LIKELY TO GET SOME OF THE RATE RISES IT SEEKS |
| 11 | But as the car sped on , it was still very much on her mind that with her car lifeless , the garage mechanics the only people able to put some life back into it , she 'd had no option but to leave her car back there . |
| 12 | In addition it was only very recently that the company had the expensive machinery necessary to translate some of the more sophisticated effects she wished to produce , and even this was being constantly updated . |
| 13 | A conference of representatives from 15 small island states in the Caribbean , the Mediterranean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans , was held in the Maldives in mid-January 1990 to discuss some of the problems facing small countries . |
| 14 | His attitude was that of a well-bred man reluctant to discuss some family difference with a prying outsider . |
| 15 | What I 'm doing at this point , actually , is jumping up and forcing the windows open to get some air into the room . |
| 16 | ENGLAND striker David Hirst staged a last ditch smash-and-grab to salvage some pride for Wednesday in the Sheffield derby at Bramall Lane . |
| 17 | One of the greatest achievements of the post War period has been the creation of a land use planning system able to preserve some distinction between town and countryside . |
| 18 | It was the scarcity of Indian appointments , coveted by so many applicants , which gave such great influence to those politicians able to produce some of them for their friends . |
| 19 | Travelled miles just to capture some meat |