Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 2 | McDunn stands talking to some heavily brassed uniformed cops on the steps of the front door . |
| 3 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 4 | It had a strong musical slant , with the Dave Lee Trio around to provide backing to some of the most popular vocalists of the day . |
| 5 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 6 | He writes : ‘ The faithful transcription of the sound patterns of speech by a fully developed alphabet has freed writing from some of the ambiguities of oral language . |
| 7 | Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process . |
| 8 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |
| 9 | I want to go camping with some of my friends |
| 10 | The idea of the social security system discriminating against elderly people may , at first sight , seem puzzling to some other groups of claimants . |
| 11 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |
| 12 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 13 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 14 | Ours have needed replacing for some time , ’ he added with a touch of grimness . |
| 15 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 16 | The temporary but lengthy closure of most of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has allowed the restoration department of the Palazzo Barberini to undertake some much needed cleaning of some of the paintings . |
| 17 | The damage cost curve is shown starting at some low value at a small or zero concentration — and increasing rapidly at high concentrations . |
| 18 | Writing for period instruments ( players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ) was a further excuse to stick to the keys that Mozart wrote in , and fully enjoy playing with some of the most wonderful musical ideas anyone has ever had . ’ |
| 19 | He glanced up as she entered , gave a curt nod and began hunting through some papers with jerky , impatient movements . |
| 20 | Keeps nattering about some demo he decydes is gon na make it for him . |
| 21 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 22 | Settling down because wood keeps moving for some time . |
| 23 | Afterwards she spent more time than usual on her appearance , determined that from now on she would stop behaving like some Victorian miss with the vapours . |
| 24 | I I remember working on some of the of the paperwork involved in it . |
| 25 | She hopes to continue dancing for some time before returning to a career in embalming . |
| 26 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 27 | I 've also recently purchased an effects processor ( BOSS SE50 ) and as most of the patches for the guitar were boring , I started experimenting with some of my own . |
| 28 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 29 | But conservatives claim that this sort of argument leads to the destruction of the moral foundations on which the social order is built : ‘ men can not for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaningless in their individual lives , so they can not for long accept a society in which power , privilege , and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria ’ . |
| 30 | He started looking at some of the nearby pillars and columns , his boots scraping on the glass slabs of the floor as he moved . |