Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Companies are often at their most vulnerable after having completed some major restructuring which has caused profits to dip . |
| 2 | I see no reason to doubt that Lycophron wrote his Alexandra about 270 B.C. , after having read some Timaeus . |
| 3 | He also had a stab at writing for a living , becoming a reporter on the Bury Times , but he soon lost that job after trying to inject some of his flowery prose into a report on the funeral of a civic dignitary . |
| 4 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 5 | The audit regime has teeth and , through refusing to register some firms and imposing conditions on others , the Institute has demonstrated that it is not afraid to bite . |
| 6 | After all , since there are postnominal attributives , and since attributive adjectives have the function of helping to identify some entity , and since associatives certainly do this even though their referential locus is different from that of the noun qualified , the reason for the gap is not obvious . |
| 7 | It is always useful for a student of acting to have some practical knowledge of stage management , helping him/her to appreciate the need for efficient technical support for any production . |
| 8 | Theodora felt the vanity of attempting to propose some measure of common sense on Gilbert 's waywardness even as she spoke . |
| 9 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 10 | The second and for this thesis the more interesting suggestion is that in an otherwise normal driving situation a driver may report ‘ waking up ’ to find that they have no recollection of having driven some previous part of the journey , despite the fact that they completed relatively complex manoeuvres during the period . |
| 11 | She accepts that she then was confused , she did n't know what to do erm she did n't think there was any point in getting out of the car which is what sh she should of done , she should of tried to make some enquiries about the child er , but she er , she looked around shrugged her shoulders and and then carried on her journey because she did n't think there was anything else she could do about it . |
| 12 | Well I think that it 's , it 's a shame that the Y D P did come to an end really , because I mean I know there are a lot of problems with it , but I think that Keith was doing a fairly good job of trying to resolve some of them |
| 13 | Donald flapped and fought and struggled , damaged but not done for , and Angelica — not unaware of the absurdity of trying to maintain some kind of formality under such circumstances , said , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ |
| 14 | A few rooms away , Zambia had become thoroughly tired of trying to get some sleep in such an uncomfortable place , and decided to snoop around the building . |
| 15 | No , we 're gon na have breakfast there and I was on about going get some whatever for lunch but I 'm not particularly bothered . |
| 16 | Unfortunately with got to get some of those people who do n't want to come and it 's all about bums on seats it 's the old old saying bums on seats we 've got to get an answer how we do n't get to these here at the moment in the audience whether they are people who want to get bums on seats or how they know how to do it perhaps they should have a meeting like this every month I 've never seen so many of . |
| 17 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 18 | Or might an innocent acquirer be assailed for failing to satisfy some other requirement ? |
| 19 | As the Minister knows , regional development grants have played an important part in helping to replace some of the jobs lost in mining and steel in south Wales . |
| 20 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 21 | A whole succession of international agreements have come into being since then , including the Montreal Protocol to phase out the manufacture and use of ozone-depleting chemicals ( such as CFCs ) and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , which has played a significant role in helping to protect some of the world 's rarest flora and fauna . |
| 22 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 23 | In attempting to formulate some of the constraints and challenges likely to face farmers in the years ahead one was conscious that today 's responses were coloured by today 's situations . |
| 24 | Yet he was probably correct in attempting to explain some of the complexities of roads in England by using one sheet of the ordnance Survey 1-inch map series . |
| 25 | ‘ As did Dickens himself , ’ announced Sir Thomas , turning round having recovered some of his composure . |
| 26 | If we believe , as many difference theorists seem to , that the best way of understanding gender relations is to study children , this saves us from having to address some very difficult practical issues which affect us in the here-and-now . |
| 27 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 28 | He was unlike his two predecessors in not being a mendicant , or a religious at all , and in having had some experience of diocesan administration for some years in the 1280s when he was a diligent and preaching archdeacon of Essex . |
| 29 | He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors — thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were on the driveway and in the yard — and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep . |
| 30 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |