Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had let him down badly on some occasions , but , on balance , nobody could deny that it had served him extremely well . |
| 2 | As a result of subsidence , the ground was one mass of hillocks and hollows , extending in all over some 70 acres . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be along shortly with some tea . ’ |
| 4 | Osaka , Japan-based Seiko Epson Co has started a new made-to-order personal computer business in the US : it will custom-build machines to customer specifications at a factory in Indiana , but production of high-grade machines at the Portland , Oregon , factory will be scaled down gradually from some 2,000 a month because of the weight of competition in the US market . |
| 5 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 6 | This was possibly the first steam working along here for some 25 years . |
| 7 | That may go down well with some Euro-sceptics among Conservative Members , but it infuriates our partners and reduces our influence in the Community , as I know only too well . |
| 8 | In the Republican 1980s , when the spending of government money on industrial research and development was not in favour , such appeals to crypto-industrial policy went down well in some quarters . |
| 9 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 10 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 11 | She found a paper bag with two toffees in it ; a book on Burma with a page of Bob 's notes inside ; yellowing , dusty copy paper , crumpled carbons , expired typewriter ribbons ; a briar pipe , grey with age , left over perhaps from some previous occupant ; a dusty brown shoe with a hole in it ; three rusty razor-blades ; an ancient copy of Queen magazine ; a letter from herself … |
| 12 | She 'll have to learn how to have fun all over again without some supercilious , long-nosed retainer giving her a cream-curdling put-down stare . |
| 13 | Gina and Michel , the artist , had gone off together to some exhibition by the time Eleanor left . |
| 14 | The pens come in a wide range of colours and when tested on the Knitleader sheet the markings were clear and washed off easily with some damp kitchen roll . |
| 15 | Off again to some distance from the grotto , the lights are small and water still , the giant eagle appears and asks , have you the sacrifice , no my Lord answers , so be it and disappears in steam . |
| 16 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 17 | Most of the red-throated divers which appear in the inshore voes at this time will be local breeders , and territories and relationships will be sorted out with much caterwauling and chasing before the successful pair set up home on some peaty pool . |
| 18 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 20 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 21 | This was owned by the skipper who had stocked up well for some unofficial business on his return to Finland . |
| 22 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 23 | I sometimes start an investigation by doing a bit of ‘ working-out ’ on the board and using intentionally ‘ messy ’ techniques to illustrate how useful they can be , always emphasising that they will , at some stage , have to look back at their work to write it up neatly in some form or other . |
| 24 | And though Security Pacific says its talks with Wells Fargo were discontinued and that ‘ no further talks are currently under way or contemplated , ’ most bank analysts like to believe that they will be picked up again at some point — unless the banks find other partners first . |
| 25 | Moving on now to some of the other facilities and controls to be found on camcorders , there are one or two which deserve a mention here because of the way in which they speed up and simplify their operation . |
| 26 | A statement issued by the London Society for Antique Dealers also criticised the move and quoted the figure of 25% , missing or ignoring the fact that seller 's commission is extremely flexible , to the point of being cut out altogether in some cases , hence the reason for imposing the new rate on the buyer 's premium , which is non-negotiable . |
| 27 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 28 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 29 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 30 | Although we must respond to the offence , we must avoid the ’ Something must be done ’ syndrome and ensure that we do not lash out wildly in some public relations exercise . |