Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he had some security , if only his art supplies were replenished . |
| 2 | If only he had some tools … |
| 3 | He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people ; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too . |
| 4 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 5 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 6 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 7 | So he has some track record . |
| 8 | If I can er I can just sneak in he won some gold medal for Scotland as well but we 'll just er |
| 9 | Admittedly he has some reservations even about free-range farming such as the need for castration , transportation and slaughtering techniques but , as Francis and Norman point out ( 1978 : 516 ) , since Singer himself thinks that much of this suffering could be eliminated , it is simply a matter of working to bring these improvements about . |
| 10 | Does not he have some regard for them ? |
| 11 | He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett . |
| 12 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 13 | time well he had some fat of ham |
| 14 | Here he acquired some proficiency in English . |
| 15 | Luckily he had some friends at the University and it was arranged that he would open a shop there and become ‘ Mathematical Instrument Maker to the University ’ . |
| 16 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 17 | Then he landed some distance off and stared at her . |
| 18 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John 's father . |
| 20 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 21 | Then he took some money out of his pocket and paid for it . |
| 22 | Then he did some shouting and strode out of there — though he paused , and thoughtfully dimmed the lights , as he left the room . |
| 23 | Then he rang some film company in London and asked for one of the most junior men in the public-relations office , and the girl could hear the phone being put down on him . |
| 24 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 25 | Instead he demonstrated some gadgets — grandma 's tilting teapot , self-adjusting spanner , mini radio transmitter to summon help via telephone and data bank — and indicated a wealth of similar innovation . |
| 26 | The Minister can not duck the fact that , even in the years when he had some money from the Chief Secretary to dispose on our arts and cultural life , he deliberately chose not to unfreeze the purchase grants of the galleries . |
| 27 | Disabled Ron started it all off in 1990 when he planted some window boxes so his friend Robert McIver would have something attractive to look at outside his window . |
| 28 | No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day . |
| 29 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 30 | It is said that his journey to America had taken him via Mexico , where he spent some time in discussion with Trotsky , on the issue of Negro involvement in the revolutionary movement . |