Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 2 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 3 | So InterCity declared a policy for the 1990s of offering catering in some form , on all their services . |
| 4 | Such an unwieldy force consisting of some 200 men was to travel to the target area in 40 jeeps accompanied by another 40 3-ton lorries carrying supplies . |
| 5 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 6 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 7 | There is , according to Quinn , no single moment ( or relatively short period ) in which all the different aspects of the company are considered together and then each part given precise goals for the foreseeable future according to some tight , analytical , holistic master plan . |
| 8 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 9 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 10 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 11 | As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda . |
| 12 | ‘ BVM ? ’ said Dalgliesh , his mind scurrying after some unrecognized make of car . |
| 13 | This increased the dock undertaking by some 93 hectares ( 230 acres ) and was completed in 1942 . |
| 14 | They found one entry referring to some specific survey station that read : " See Mrs Jones at the farm ; she knows where it is . " |
| 15 | There is no doubt that amplified vibration can provide dramatic assistance in acquiring speed speechreading for some people with profound hearing loss . |
| 16 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 17 | If a situation is deemed to be inequitable then it is in principle possible to redistribute income according to some appropriate canon of equity . |
| 18 | However , within the village , there were signs of commercial agriculture developing among some of the larger peasant families changing contracts with tenants and labourers as a result . |
| 19 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 20 | Well you know , if you spent an afternoon looking through some of the files and what the opportunities were . |
| 21 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 22 | It embarrassed him still more when she arrived dressed for bed herself as well , a complex bundle of diaphanous nightwear from the midst of which her poised cigarette arm stuck out oddly , like an awkward projection emrging from some ill-wrapped Christmas parcel . |
| 23 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 24 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 25 | craft and practical work leading to some experience of design and technology and of solving problems ; |
| 26 | Agriculture contributed 11 per cent of GDP , with tobacco ( the main cash crop and export ) , sugar , maize , beef and cotton accounting for some two-thirds of the sector 's production . |
| 27 | There was a darkness , a sinister menace clinging to some of them , as if simply to touch them might call up dreadful visions and evil forces . |
| 28 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 29 | However , his company Micro Xenox collapsed with debts estimated at £480,000 and Bart Kahn is reported to have disappeared from his Birmingham home leaving behind some very embarrassed computer executives . |
| 30 | They give us their advice on what they know about the voluntary sector , and they give us guidance and help , in fact , the meeting took place er , only two days ago , and absolutely invaluable to be able to sit and listen to people who 've spent their life in the voluntary sector working with some of the difficulties we do n't appreciate . |