Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |
| 2 | At the moment , you can get adaptors for computers to cope with some form of speech or at least a limited range of verbal instructions erm and in fact Apple computers and others have little packages which allow about thirty well-defined verbal instructions to , to go in . |
| 3 | Try to avoid making instant decisions ; instead , go home and draw the proposed piece to scale on some card . |
| 4 | Well , we 're anxious that there is n't an escalation of this crisis , that it may be dealed with as Brigadier Harbottle has written in a letter to the Guardian today , dealt with , er more through first of all an attempt by the Arab nations to come to some agreement amongst themselves and agreement which will satisfy them and be a more long-lasting one . |
| 5 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 6 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 7 | The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes . |
| 8 | For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material . |
| 9 | I got a bloke to see about some business . ’ |
| 10 | In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring . |
| 11 | Failure to benefit from some union policies need not preclude membership if advantages accrue from other union policies . |
| 12 | A real desire to participate in some form of practical training was expressed by most of the people spoken to but the problems of fitting in courses with the off-farm employment were considerable . |
| 13 | Under the cover of the two senior Hepwoods enthusiastically congratulating their nephew and Guthrie Hepwood taking Travis with him to his wine cellar to sort through some champagne , Leith 's hate vibes came out with a vengeance . |
| 14 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 15 | A further reason that may be advanced for insisting that police interference of whatever kind must be legally justified is that it is an understandable human reaction to respond with some indignation to an allegation or suspicion believed by its object to be unjustified . |
| 16 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 17 | A keenly stated desire to move into some area of specialization is a necessity , and , as a result , uniform patrol work becomes synonymous with failure and punishment . |
| 18 | Reactions to stress to some extent depend on a child 's age . |
| 19 | Beware however of overdoing new techniques — you do n't have to show everything silently every time , even though it is an exciting technique to use with some video in some classes . |
| 20 | Right has everyone had a chance to look at some stuff since last time ? |
| 21 | Do you want to rescue these horrible garments , these symbols of pettiness and niggling , for Daniel to give to some trampess ? |
| 22 | These have been possible questions to ask for some time . |
| 23 | Final-year units present students with an opportunity to study in some depth particular problems and aspects of the state of the contemporary world . |
| 24 | I have had an opportunity to study in some detail how this resistance to change has nearly ruined the Swiss watch industry . |
| 25 | With the designation came additional finance which was used to support a number of initiatives including a series of two term temporary posts for McGregor staff to engage in some pilot planning work . |
| 26 | However odd Stubbly 's behaviour had been just lately , I was relying on his basic northern canniness to keep to some vestige of normalcy when it came to money . |
| 27 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 28 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 29 | The most basic error , which I attempted to pinpoint in discussing the sense in which the cries , hoots , and gestures of animals are ‘ primitive forms ’ of language in Chapter 5 , is to confuse the predictive value of the effects of such behaviour with the conscious intent of a speaker to communicate in some way . |
| 30 | ‘ All the same , it makes sense to come to some kind of agreement about this . |