Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 2 | An oscillator moulded under plastiskin to her throat vibrated her larynx to some official 's voice-pattern . |
| 3 | We do n't actually guide visitors around the reserve , rather leave them to their own devices having informed them about what they 're likely to see and drawn their attention to some safety aspects . |
| 4 | Of course , none of these developments took place overnight , but their growth to some maturity had much to do with the promise variable analysis held out that this was the route toward the scientific respectability of social research methods . |
| 5 | In fact almost every large Greek bronze we have owes its survival to some accident which sequestered it in antiquity : a shipwreck , a fall of rock . |
| 6 | His results are fully corroborated here ( see Chapter 3 ) , but owls also modify the bones of their prey to some extent . |
| 7 | In a conversation with the wife of his biographer , Alan Wood , erm who had drawn his attention to some injustice in the world , he said , ‘ But the universe is unjust . ’ |
| 8 | In essence ( although we have rephrased and restructured his argument to some extent ) , Bottoms sees the penal system as suffering both a crisis of legitimacy and a crisis of resources . |
| 9 | The mystic surrenders his will to some being or idea which he considers superior to himself , whereas the anorexic strengthens her individual will against the impingements of an apparently inescapable reality . |
| 10 | At the stairfoot , Silly-Willie , on his way to some fire with a vast contribution of logs , put down his load and goggled at them . |
| 11 | Your mobility to some extent governs the other two considerations . |
| 12 | I suppose , at this stage , I might bring you into our confidence to some extent . |
| 13 | Masked as they are by the sexual scents of other animals or the synthesised fragrance of flowers , they probably still affect our behaviour to some extent . |