Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 2 | Disgust vibrated in her voice as she suddenly let go of some clearly banked-up and held-back emotion . |
| 3 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 4 | They need to struggle with the thorny issue of whose interests come first , and they must be ready to let go of some aspirations and commitments if they are to enjoy what they decide to do . |
| 5 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |
| 6 | While the exercise about to be described was a theoretical model , not an empirical test , its results indicate that positive NPV opportunities probably do exist in some ‘ cash cows ’ and that an integration of DCF and portfolio-grid analyses may lead to a more careful and sophisticated use of portfolio grids . |
| 7 | To be sure , bitterness which did exist in some quarters between Protestants and Catholics both then and now has not affected Jews , thankfully . |
| 8 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 9 | Belgium 's most prestigious museum did benefit to some extent , but far less than anticipated . |
| 10 | The last-night party , a hallowed Easter Course tradition , was studded with starts of the highest calibre ; we were richly entertained throughout the evening by acts that were all professional to the core , even if we did see through some of the flimsy disguises . |
| 11 | Did run into some scientists , however . |
| 12 | Writers in this tradition do touch on some spatial dimensions but they are not central . |
| 13 | ‘ You do sleep at some time , I presume ? ’ she asked rhetorically . |
| 14 | Equality did apply to some things . |
| 15 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 16 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |
| 17 | Barratt did arrive at some tentative agreement with him but left the decision to Taylor , who , in due course , entered into some form of arrangement the details of which , however , are wanting . |
| 18 | This can be a frightening experience because when a gila monster bites , it does not let go for some ten to fifteen minutes , during which time it continues to chew , injecting more and more venom into the wound . |
| 19 | Short-run variability of V. Even though monetarists stress the direct mechanism and a relatively inelastic L curve , they do admit to some variability of the velocity of circulation ( V ) in the short run . |
| 20 | I did dream about some kittens the other night , there was |
| 21 | The survey did point to some areas where improvements could be made . |
| 22 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 23 | Do come to some or all of these events . |
| 24 | I did notice with some interest that particular survey . |
| 25 | But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me . |
| 26 | oh you begger nurse Lynn , and I go in , oh we do get in some pickles nurse Lynn , oh you begger |
| 27 | Boys do indulge in some sexual activities , such as masturbation alone and with other boys , and perhaps intercourse with prostitutes or lower-class girls . |
| 28 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 29 | Although I do agree with some of his points — the need for more public courses and more emphasis put on rules of etiquette — I was somewhat alarmed to read that in the interests of quicker play , we high-handicappers were being relegated to a boring , 9-hole course until we improve our game enough to join ‘ the big boys on the big-boys ’ course ’ . |
| 30 | But leaving this to one side , Pearlin and Schooler do deal with some methods of mentally restructuring the meaning of the difficulty that are commonly used to reduce distress . |