Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 2 | But he was the adult involved , after all , he thought , eating a piece of chocolate hard on a particular tooth to get rid of some bitter aspirin lodged in a broken stopping . |
| 3 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 4 | Of course oil exporters , e.g. Nigeria and Algeria , have had to revise ambitious economic development programmes whilst some of the Persian Gulf oil exporters have disposed of some of their capital and money market investments . |
| 5 | Inside the palace , restoration work has begun of some areas of the Sala di Luca Giordano under the direction of Mina Gregori , Professor of Art History at the University of Florence . |
| 6 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 7 | Draw a picture Y equals five X differentiate think of some coordinates . |
| 8 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 9 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 10 | I delayed switching the computer off while I racked my brain trying to think of some way of saving them , but there was none . |
| 11 | Finance can be available from the Housing Corporation , building societies and local authorities , from whom land can also sometimes be acquired at a reasonable price if councils want to dispose of some building land unwanted because of reductions in their own building programmes — perhaps at prices below market value if restrictions on resale are accepted . |
| 12 | Her mother had thought of some new worry . |