Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | To force cyclists to lock and unlock their bikes , detach and reattach shopping bags , lift off children and carry them perhaps for some distance , are all seen as ways of penalising cyclists and by implication encouraging the convenience of car use . |
| 2 | In we filed , yours truly with some hesitation . |
| 3 | Luke would never forgive her if she gave them away with some unwitting comment . |
| 4 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 5 | In short it imposes a uniform structure on the universities ( Wissenschaftliche Hochschulen and Kunsthochschulen ) and polytechnics ( Fachhochschulen ) which together with some extras such as teacher and theological training constitute Germany 's current provision for higher education . |
| 6 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 7 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 8 | In the preface to another intelligence report , the SEAC Assistant Director of Intelligence addressed himself squarely to some of the political problems which were being faced . |
| 9 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 10 | Its alright for some but |
| 11 | It might diminish with time , secreting itself away in some irregularly attended cranny of her brain , but it would be there , waiting , finding its moments . |
| 12 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 13 | This book will whisk you away to some of the wildest and most beautiful trekking areas in the world : from the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal to the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda ; from the Royal Road of the Incas in Peru to New Zealand 's Routeburn Track ; and from stormswept Patagonia to Vancouver Island . |
| 14 | He mentioned then a touring display on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid , and I am writing to you now with some more information on the display . |
| 15 | ‘ Then I do hope your devotion to duty has n't made you late for some pressing engagement , ’ he added suavely . |
| 16 | I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time . |
| 17 | Major quietly or to you quietly in some back room and said , Look I 'm a bit bothered about this . |
| 18 | It may be convenient here to say something briefly about some of the other religious denominations which came to the town in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | but kept me behind on some half-baked errand |
| 20 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 21 | She 'd never throw herself away on some dirty old man . ’ |
| 22 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 23 | On the semantic level , thirdly , it has been observed that even though infinitives have no endings for person or number , they do have " a reference to some subject … ; though their grammatical dependence connects them frequently with some other term " ( Brown 1884 : 337 ) . |
| 24 | She could only now assume that Life had served him badly in some way , at least in his own opinion . |
| 25 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 26 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ I can only imagine someone has jumped out on her and dragged her away for some reason . |
| 28 | His curious insecurity would turn him permanently against some of his fellow hostages . |
| 29 | But because mountain peaks require specialist flora and fauna , and are often separate one from another , they also to some extent resemble islands ; and indeed , they have been called ‘ sky islands ’ . |
| 30 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |