Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 2 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 3 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 4 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 5 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 6 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 7 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 9 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |
| 10 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 11 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 12 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 13 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 14 | Although the Hauptdolomit was primarily located on top of the Z1 Anhydrite platform , it prograded basinwards to some extent and overlays the carbonate mudstones of the Stinkdolomit in some wells ( see Figs. 18 , 19 and 25 ) . |
| 15 | A limitation of her analysis , deriving from its emphasis on aesthetics , and found also in some of the recent discussions of media and advertising , is a tendency to exaggerate the unique properties of the individual object , as against the type-token nature of words which almost always refer back to some generic category . |
| 16 | So , instead of approaching silently , the cuckoo crashed noisily into some nearby vegetation , causing a considerable commotion and frightening the host bird away . |
| 17 | As he staggered back with some misshapen logs , she would hand the bellows to her latest friend and say , ‘ You blow up my fire . |
| 18 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 19 | It was to push responsibility downwards so that , for example , day-to-day decisions in hospitals were taken in the hospitals themselves and not forever referred upwards to some ‘ higher authority ’ . |
| 20 | Although her pallor and her drawn features aged her , Wycliffe had the impression of a little girl caught out in some childish fault . |
| 21 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |
| 22 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 23 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 24 | In this initial skirmish his men suffered badly with some 20 killed and 120 wounded , while the rebels , well dug in , had only a single casualty . |
| 25 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 26 | Barbs adhered loosely to some Eastern-inspired sect whose professed aim was universal love . |
| 27 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 28 | More than 80 children came along on some days , and many people said they hoped it would become an annual event , she said . |
| 29 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 30 | Her mother came in with some stewed plums in a bowl . |