Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he goes on to ask some similarly pertinent questions : ‘ To whom does a person 's body belong ? |
| 2 | He then goes on to outline some examples for the primary school curriculum . |
| 3 | He then goes on to outline some of the gifts of the ascended Christ . |
| 4 | Burnard goes on to mention some of the skills involved : the ability to listen ( to the words but also noting volume , pitch , eye movements and related body language ) ; ability to offer free attention ( to note and accept , not analyse and interpret ) ; to suspend judgement ( to refrain from categorising as good/bad , right/wrong ) ; and to control what is said in reply and how it is said , with a facial expression which is genuine , not mechanical . |
| 5 | It goes on to list some of the tips to be found in a book ( price £12.95 ) of the same title — techniques which will apparently enable you to become ‘ more popular , more confident , more successful and happier in life ’ . |
| 6 | We rarely sit down to challenge some assumption we have always used . |
| 7 | They moved on to see some fellows working on a lovely Galway hooker raised on sleepers at the waterside , then crossed to a quiet little bar and had some Beamishes . |
| 8 | no doubt you 've come down to watch some decent cricket . |
| 9 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 10 | He bent over to scrape some of the substance off the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ She wandered off to find some pine cones , ’ Billy replied , and stretched his tall skinny frame . |
| 12 | Lukoff and Whiteman ( 1960 ) found that blind pupils make blind friends when they have the opportunity to do so , and it may be that they need as they grow up to have some shared experience with children and young people who face similar challenges . |
| 13 | ‘ Peace be to Lieutenant Denholm but he 's a civilian electronics specialist who 's come out to fix some abstruse electronic fault that only he can fix . |
| 14 | ‘ He came along to copy some lettering in the museum , not expecting the place to be closed , of course . |
| 15 | When he came in to put some logs on the sitting-room fire he could not restrain a sob , kneeling there with his back to the coffee-table . |
| 16 | I came in to do some work — I could n't sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ I just came in to buy some flowers and a paper and suddenly I find I 'm in the middle of it all . |
| 18 | They came over to meet some people and they seemed to be interested . |
| 19 | All the same , Merlyn said : ‘ We came over to fetch some things we store here . ’ |
| 20 | We should not be surprised perhaps that children can grow up holding some very strange ideas : |
| 21 | They paddled out carrying some kedges for craft that would then tow themselves off to these anchors , and with nothing more to be done on Z Red beach they paddled round to Z Green . |
| 22 | ‘ It also happens in public schools , where new arrivals are considered ordinary weaklings until they 've been pushed out to survive some sort of ordeal so they can re-enter the group with a new identity . ’ |
| 23 | And a pane of glass in the Old Trafford dressing room area was shattered as the Lancashire players came out to field some of the glass landed in England spinner Peter Such 's kit bag . |
| 24 | And a pane of glass in the Old Trafford dressing room area was shattered as the Lancashire players came out to field some of the glass landed in England spinner Peter Such 's kit bag . |
| 25 | He had stopped off to collect some winnings at a nearby betting shop before going to pay his gas bill and deposit three years ' savings at a bank . |
| 26 | They assume that plant some will be preferred over plan some in the context Tell the gardener … because planting and gardeners are semantically related . |
| 27 | ‘ This afternoon I am going out to do some Christmas shopping and I am enjoying every minute . |
| 28 | He 's going out to spend some . |
| 29 | No we 're going out to have some fun . |
| 30 | Marie pulls her boots on and says she 's going out to get some fags . |