Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As he staggered back with some misshapen logs , she would hand the bellows to her latest friend and say , ‘ You blow up my fire . |
| 13 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 14 | Although her pallor and her drawn features aged her , Wycliffe had the impression of a little girl caught out in some childish fault . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 17 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | More than 80 children came along on some days , and many people said they hoped it would become an annual event , she said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her mother came in with some stewed plums in a bowl . |
| 22 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
| 23 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 24 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 26 | Irwin , too , came in for some criticism from his own side , notably from Churchill , who was famously appalled by the ‘ spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple lawyer , now seditious fakir , striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy 's palace , there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor ’ , but generally he was showered with praise . |
| 27 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 28 | The involvement of IL-10 in the inhibition of macrophage anti-schistosome effector functions ( James ) , and the Th1 down-regulation which accompanies egg-associated Th2 responses , came in for some debate . |
| 29 | When the Volvo 700 series was launched , the saloon 's rear styling , though effective in its use of space , came in for some heavy criticism in terms of appearance . |
| 30 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |