Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave a message with my secretary about where you are and I 'll see about recouping some of your losses . |
| 2 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 3 | Jane Mitchell and Neil Pike , her talented wine-maker , have a reputation for producing some of Australia 's finest wines . |
| 4 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 5 | The two sides agreed to hold a further meeting soon which is expected to produce firm proposals for resolving some of the Irish concerns on security . |
| 6 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 7 | After surveying some of the available evidence on the United Kingdom , France , Germany and the United States regarding parliamentary defence against the dominance of officials , Page concluded that in the approval of legislation , the approval of the budget and scrutiny of administration , European parliaments are largely dominated by the executive . |
| 8 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 9 | And after asking some of you what new products you think Sainsbury 's should introduce , we made sure the buyers were listening too . |
| 10 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 11 | An hour later , after admiring some of the rare and beautiful pieces in the shop , Müller left , having learned nothing . |
| 12 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 13 | After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW . |
| 14 | The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill on Aug. 31 after modifying some of its provisions , so that in its final form the law cut state subsidies by only 50 per cent and these would be restored in full on expiry of the 180 days ; provisions for a moratorium on unpaid taxes and greater flexibility on contracts and salaries for senior government employees were voted out . |
| 15 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 16 | After watching some of Ali 's films , a London neurologist said he was convinced Ali had brain damage . |
| 17 | But , after watching some of the internationals this season , I think that these rival friendships must have worn pretty thin judging by the number of collapsed scrummages in games . |
| 18 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 19 | Mr Heseltine is expected soon to release a white paper on energy policy which could set out plans for saving some of the jobs at pits BC want to close . |
| 20 | ‘ I was rather wondering , Uncle , ’ he smiled at the man who had kept a fatherly eye on him from the age of ten , ‘ how you felt about serving some of that excellent champagne I know you have in your cellar . ’ |
| 21 | I erm , I think it 's worth correcting some of the financial mistakes again , that Mr , and then perhaps give him some more facts on that . |
| 22 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 23 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 24 | The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report . |
| 25 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 26 | I only hope that the police committee will actually support those and get on towards introducing them , because that is a way of using some of the people in our village communities to erm , to keep an eye on the community and see that those people that should n't go round . |
| 27 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 28 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 29 | It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future . |
| 30 | Each has at least had the consolation , if that is the appropriate word , of seeing some of his worst fears come to pass . |