Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 2 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 3 | It 's a well-designed demo , which almost leaves the screen empty , filling it with some of the best routines around . |
| 4 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 5 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 6 | Some of those subsidies went into persuading Daimler-Benz to take over most of Germany 's aerospace industry ( see page 87 ) , by guaranteeing it against some future losses risked in making Airbuses . |
| 7 | Disfavouring abortion in all cases is inconsistent with favouring it in some , since there are circumstances in which these attitudes will prompt attempts to permit and to prevent the very same act . |
| 8 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 9 | It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism . |
| 10 | Oh buying it on some sort of |
| 11 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 12 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 13 | Last week they started breaking the wild three year olds and goodness , Raimundo and the grooms adored it , treating it like some macho game . |
| 14 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 16 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 17 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 19 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
| 20 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 21 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 22 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 23 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 24 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 25 | not using it for some |
| 26 | Intergraph Corp has decided it will standardise on Menlo Park , California-based Versant Object Technology Corp 's eponymous object-oriented database , reselling the product and using it in some future products . |
| 27 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 28 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 29 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 30 | Or rather , as she then , standing tense in the emptiness felt it , she had become something exceedingly small , smaller than the jar of marmalade and more mobile , as small as a mouse , or as an electric spark , which was impelled to run very fast , invisibly fast , round and round the house , altering it in some way which was now imperative . |