Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SACEUR , General Lauris Norstadt , argued for and won some delay in Sandys ' programme and a modest increase in the proposed strength of BAOR . |
| 2 | Professor Eversley has stressed that it need not be drawn very high and points to the importance of groups at the margin , who used soap to wash with and wore some cotton instead of home-spun linen : " what seems neces-sary for growth is that the very exceptional expenditures should become a little less so " . |
| 3 | The teachers would prescribe the topics to be dealt with and give some account of what the class had done previously . |
| 4 | You will walk very carefully into the cottage , you will put the kettle on and make some tea . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 6 | The background to all of this is knowledge on the part of the creditor that security is being taken from the surety for the benefit of the debtor and that the surety is a person who is likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor . |