Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 3 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 4 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 5 | I know right I 've got ta make some pastry |
| 6 | In a report today , the lawyers , including representatives of the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Haldane Society , criticise Douglas Hogg , the former Home Office minister , and the RUC for accusing some solicitors of holding IRA sympathies . |
| 7 | I was starting to think about cooking some supper when I heard music . |
| 8 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 9 | Thus , the dairymen who farmed the lush meadows of the Dove Valley geared their husbandry to a different system from that followed by the sheep-and-corn farmers on the Lincolnshire Wolds , and the range of opportunities for earning a living and for gaining some measure of independence from a lord or squire was much greater for a cottager living on the edge of a moor , forest or marsh than the scope available to his counterpart in one of the nucleated , corn-growing villages of the Midland Plain . |
| 10 | Although modern America and Western Europe , as well as Russia and Eastern Europe , are different in some respects from the type of society with which Freud was familiar before and after the First World War , there is still great value in Freud 's conceptualizations for understanding some problems in these societies . |
| 11 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |
| 12 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 13 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 14 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 15 | After driving some distance Angel stopped the carriage to get down and continue on foot . |
| 16 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 17 | After waiting some time , instead of going to my bedroom and packing again , as before dinner I 'd been so certain , at last , of being able to do , I went in search of him . |
| 18 | After getting some oxygen , he then went back in for a third time . |
| 19 | After losing some men and witnessing some horrific atrocities that it might have prevented by timely action , the force began to jump in to keep the peace . |
| 20 | These were the findings of the Spanish Association of information technology companies , SEDISI , after questioning some 58% of all information technology companies in the country . |
| 21 | To find out , the Cornell team did a further experiment , to see whether students became more or less ‘ honest ’ in a hypothetical situation , after doing some economics . |
| 22 | After spending some time , often years , with us , people move on to other things and we need to fill the gaps . ’ |
| 23 | After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted . |
| 24 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 25 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 26 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 27 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 28 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 29 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 30 | After having some Alexander lessons , you will begin to understand the principles of ‘ inhibition ’ and ‘ direction ’ . |