Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] some [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 2 | So for some time She-She and I talked very seriously about the future Princess of Wales . |
| 3 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 4 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 5 | In the final letter , written in 1768 , when he was in his late seventies and obviously under some stress he complains about the lack of co-operation from Solander and Ellis . |
| 6 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking for the unicorn , ’ she repeated , saying ‘ looking ’ now instead of ‘ hunting ’ because perhaps in some way he was the protector of the beast . |
| 8 | So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing |
| 9 | So in some way they were making economy by not doing that ? |
| 10 | So in some way I must have passed on my fear to my children , even though I thought I was doing everything in my power to avoid doing so . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 12 | So in some ways it 's cheaper insurance but in others it 's erm a bit of a sting . |
| 13 | So they 'd say erm write down the I mean if you 're lucky they 'll give perh perhaps on some questions they 'll give it to you and on others they 'll say write it down . |
| 14 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 15 | Increasingly Moran could be seen in the fields staring idly at some task he should be completing . |
| 16 | Perhaps at some point he smiles slightly to himself , so that Millie smiles , too , and says , ‘ What ? ’ |
| 17 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 18 | That does n't seem to be so at some stages it is a little difficult getting it over as a as a a retired person talking to someone who is facing redundancy about retirement . |
| 19 | So by some means we must devise solutions that produce at least what we have at present ; that is to say , the £27,000 million which the Inland Revenue collected by direct taxation . |
| 20 | Not like some people she 'd known . |
| 21 | It is over my ankles and outside in some places it is waist high . |
| 22 | Not without some difficulty I persuaded her to join us … |
| 23 | Not without some reluctance she said , ‘ Back to the palazzo . |
| 24 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 25 | From The Childhood , and even more from some conversations I recorded with the poet 's second cousin ( T. Trehame Thomas ) in 1966–7 , there are hints that Mrs Thomas 's family proudly preserved the memory of Alderman Townsend and his descendants : the Tedmans at a vicarage in Much Birch , near Hereford ; another great-uncle at Limpley Stoke near Bath with an interest in the development of Edward 's French grammar ; and many more who had either been abroad and returned to moderate affluence in the Border counties ( according to Mr T. T. Thomas 's recollections ) or had settled abroad in Africa or in the USA , like Edward 's aunt Margaret . |
| 26 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |
| 27 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 28 | Well I think if you can come up with some suggestions you do n't have to say why . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , Trevor , ’ Derek Carlisle confronted his colleague , ‘ we know that the President of the World faced a demand for higher salaries from our research workers ; that unless he came up with some incentive we would lose the best of those workers ; and that the increased contribution towards marioc manufacture would compete directly for Exchequer funds . |
| 30 | Yet also in some way I knew he was sincere . |