Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 4 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 5 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 6 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 7 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 8 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 9 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 10 | A number of Education Board members , who can join up to five schools boards of governors , are having to stand down from some of them . |
| 11 | Having been thwarted in his aims , was he going to swoop down at some unsuspected moment and engage her in another haranguing match ? |
| 12 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 13 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 14 | You can have a lot of fun shooting city lights , but there are one or two points to watch out for if you are going to come away with some really effective shots . |
| 15 | Herbert Read , in a conversation with Stephen Spender during this period , suggested that Eliot was lacking in affection for " perhaps everyone " and that he wished " to slink away into some corner and die " . |
| 16 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 17 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 18 | Unless the Government is prepared to come up with some cash there is a real danger that the Dearing vision will be blinded by the dust which the report is rapidly gathering . |
| 19 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 20 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 21 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |
| 22 | Tony used to come up with some quite amazing ideas and we 'd try and put them into practice . |
| 23 | Harmonic choices like those shown above obviously allow Joe to come up with some very interesting chord voicings and sequences . |
| 24 | After working through this example try to come up with some other bass line/double-stop ideas of your own . |
| 25 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 26 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 27 | When representatives of the offending authorities are called to account by the Committee , they will need to come up with some better answers to justify their past actions than that members of CPRW are just a fractious minority . |
| 28 | For most of the week she 'd been seated at her desk , wading through piles of old G.W. design books , taking notes , making sketches , dashing off diagrams , in an effort to come up with some common thread in the mish-mash of styles that dragged dully across the pages . |
| 29 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 30 | A plant yes , because if you 're solving problems you want somebody to come up with some good ideas to get you out of your rut . |