Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 3 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 4 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 5 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 6 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 7 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 9 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 10 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 11 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 12 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 13 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 14 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 15 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 16 | He stopped to drink some coffee . |
| 17 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 18 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 19 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 20 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 21 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 22 | ‘ I daresay her aunt and uncle would let you have it , ’ said Melissa , aware that this might be unlikely but feeling impelled to give some comfort to a fellow human being in so much distress . |
| 23 | On Wednesday came the masterstroke of entertainment , a party reported to cost some $12,000 which revealed definitively that the people of Fort Worth have a sense of humour about themselves . |
| 24 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 25 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 26 | She bent to knock some snow from her bindings . |
| 27 | A Leaders ' Training class was attended by Edith Harlow and Hermine Burg who helped to keep some classes going to LONDON and Dagenham throughout and after the war , while Molly was engaged on full time war work . |
| 28 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 29 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 30 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |