Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation . |
| 2 | It has slowly dissolved some rocks , especially the limestones . |
| 3 | In over 20 years on the USPGA Tour his earnings only totalled some $3.5m , with his best year being 1980 with $380,000 . |
| 4 | It has the best links between applications , and Spinnaker has obviously given some thought to the future needs of users by including OLE support . |
| 5 | The previous examples of the use of bioceramics have all included some dependence on mechanical strength and uses have focused on replacing diseased or damaged tissues . |
| 6 | She had obviously made some attempt to tidy up . |
| 7 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 8 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 9 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 10 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 11 | He stopped a little way away , and so did I. He 'd obviously got some plan . |
| 12 | By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds . |
| 13 | With regard to particular crimes , the survey perhaps offered some reassurance to those accustomed to the image of a massive upsurge in crime which is so regularly portrayed by the media . |
| 14 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 15 | Oh that 's better got some pins and needles in my knees . |
| 16 | The first of these is the promise of resource-based learning ( RBL ) , which , though unfulfilled in the majority of the curriculum in most schools , has none the less had some influence on the pattern of work . |
| 17 | The contents of the paper apparently horrified some ministers and , under some pressure , Mrs Thatcher withdrew it from the Cabinet agenda . |
| 18 | He 'd obviously walked some distance to respond to her buzz , and right now he was wondering why . |
| 19 | The ratio fell substantially after that , and by 1986 direct taxes only provided some 10% more revenue than taxes on expenditure . |
| 20 | Never again , because in sheer economic terms it is lunacy to spend upwards of £80 million to knock out a war machine that actually only provided some £20 billion of contracts for western industry . |
| 21 | Firstly , some overhead costs are only known some months after they have been incurred . |
| 22 | Malaya , the princely states of India , Fiji , Natal , the Gambia , had all experienced some form of indirect administration . |
| 23 | The above examples have all assumed some prescience on the part of the investor . |
| 24 | " He 's obviously gone some place he knows I would disapprove of — which probably means something involving the Irish sympathizers … " |
| 25 | The , the , the the other thing er I , I have the feeling in this finger of , not pins and needles , but just a slight difference he 's obviously cut some nerves I should imagine . |
| 26 | This process necessarily involved some redundancies , but it was found that many of the reductions could be achieved through natural wastage , and it was possible to offer a considerable number of employees transfers to the St Helens or Northwich breweries . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ I told him , ‘ Molly the cleaner wo n't want to do the chapel with a nude Madonna in it , so you had better put some clothes on her . ’ |
| 28 | I think I 'd better put some washing in before I go out . |
| 29 | I think I 'd better put some washing in before I go out . |
| 30 | For sheltered housing , which would have greatly benefitted some clients , there was a long waiting list . |