Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auctioneer came to me , Oh I suppose you 'll want to borrow some money now . |
| 2 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 3 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 4 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 5 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 6 | In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session . |
| 7 | Therefore , any form of report which by virtue of the qualifications of the reporter was intended to provide some comfort to readers of accounts would be regarded as a quasi audit report . |
| 8 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 9 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
| 10 | Every fieldworker needs to acquire some insight into the basic infrastructure of the society he is studying . |
| 11 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 12 | Retraining would , therefore , need to include some rethinking of the role of the teacher . |
| 13 | Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit . |
| 14 | Now I want to include some background music . |
| 15 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's time we had an outstanding international , ’ said the English coach who , without any sour grapes after Wales 's win at Cardiff , desperately wants to see some back play , sadly missing in most of the Five Nations games so far . |
| 17 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 18 | Asking us whether we want to borrow some money . |
| 19 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 20 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 21 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 22 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 24 | Generally speaking , this is deemed to provide some clue as to one 's destiny . |
| 25 | The unusual condition was included to provide some control for von Restorff effects . |
| 26 | He has to bear some responsibility for what happened . ’ |
| 27 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 28 | In fact , it might even be a hindrance , though I suppose later on you 'd need to discover some kind of friendship too , otherwise what on earth would you talk about at nights ? ’ |
| 29 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 30 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |