Example sentences of "[adv] to some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 4 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 5 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 6 | The teacher had finally got her class settled down to some work . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 9 | Then you can get down to some work and start paying off your debt . ’ |
| 10 | I must get down to some work . ’ |
| 11 | I feel I have let Sir Charles Irving down to some degree , ’ he added . |
| 12 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 13 | But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has . |
| 14 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 15 | The husband and wife retire from their work and immediately move down to some retirement haven in deepest Cornwall . |
| 16 | It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people . |
| 17 | They broke down to some extent , particularly in Bohemia , the former administrative separatism of the provinces , and provided the monarchy with an income far greater and an army far stronger than it had ever possessed before . |
| 18 | Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack . |
| 19 | When connected via the phono jacks , the signal level of these can be mixed in for playing along to some backing . |
| 20 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
| 21 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 22 | Other occupations are of necessity followed in the neighbouring towns so to some extent Lockington is a commuter village . |
| 23 | Baker and Butlin ( 1973 , p. 619 ) concluded from their major edited survey of those field systems that ‘ As the number of local studies has increased , so to some extent has the difficulty of attempting generalizations and it becomes increasingly clear that no single interpretation will exactly fit all the known facts ’ . |
| 24 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 25 | A seller who wishes to exclude liability for third party infringement can do so to some extent by relying on SGA 1979 , s 12(3) and ( 4 ) or SGSA 1982 , s 2(3) and ( 4 ) , ( contracting to pass only such title as the seller may have , subject to disclosure of known encumbrances and a warranty of no interference in quiet possession by the seller ) . |
| 26 | So to some extent your responses re i is quite naturally a response to the position you face with your employers is n't it . |
| 27 | I think so to some extent . |
| 28 | The scale of development that 's in Professor Lock 's contemplation is plainly not one that I I think that would directly er affect Richmondshire and so to some extent er I 'm speaking from that perspective . |
| 29 | This chapter is an attempt to sort these various pro- and anti-classical elements in to some kind of order . |
| 30 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |