Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 2 | Explaining this took some doing . |
| 3 | The Doctor had expected this to provoke some reaction but the Chelonians remained resolutely silent , their eyes fixed on the big screen that showed a trundling view of their journey through the wastes . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't do that to prove some sort of mastery over you , ’ he said evenly , and she drew in her breath sharply , wondering if he read her mind . |
| 5 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 6 | Can she have seen fit to pursue some errand of blessing elsewhere ? |
| 7 | Preferably an ex 39 Squadron member or any ex-RAF personnel who might feel able to dedicate some time to assisting the Group 's efforts at North Weald . |
| 8 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 9 | It suddenly seemed necessary to stake some claim openly . |
| 10 | We removed some plaster in the centre , to see exactly where the joints were in the blockwork , so we could use these to save some cutting , as I said earlier . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that the outcome of consultations on policy on the abuse of market power will result in legislative proposals along the lines of Article 86 , to join the existing White Paper proposals for an Article 85-type law on restrictive practices , and that the government will see fit to give some priority to legislation . |
| 12 | But what happened next brought some hope on an otherwise bleak weekend . |
| 13 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
| 14 | You , getting all put some back in , I need some by six o'clock , I said comes at six thirty , you ca n't have it we 're bloody cooking , any way I though you done John 's said his got because come on . |
| 15 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 16 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 17 | ( Exercise 11.5 casts some light on this . ) |
| 18 | After the surgery Donal had speech therapy and felt able to do some work . |
| 19 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 20 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 21 | ‘ That was this morning ’ : the afternoon broadcasts from Tel Aviv and from Kuwait had each displayed some fear of the future ; he had never expected to hear them agree ; but at least Palestine ( i.e. Israel ) had no Shi'is ( and so need fear no internal threat ) . |
| 22 | It is significant that in ( David Raymond ) Smith the Court of Appeal had first to perform some surgery on the relationship of mens rea to the actus reus of criminal damage to reach the desired conclusion and it is therefore unsurprising that adverse comment was expressed by some of their Lordships in Morgan . |
| 23 | Scarlet , left alone in the house , looked at the breakfast table in horrified disgust : this feeling had first started some time before — she could n't remember when — as boredom . |
| 24 | ‘ How long have you known my brother ? ’ she asked politely , feeling driven to make some effort at conversation . |