Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |
| 2 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |
| 3 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 4 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 5 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 6 | In a letter to Richard Bentley , a leading philosopher of the time , he agreed that a finite collection of stars could not remain motionless ; they would all fall together to some central point . |
| 7 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 8 | Bernstein 's work has come in for some strong criticism recently . |
| 9 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 10 | All that is needed is plenty of recall , supplemented perhaps by some memory-tickling research . |
| 11 | Having been thwarted in his aims , was he going to swoop down at some unsuspected moment and engage her in another haranguing match ? |
| 12 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 13 | Men were no longer buried in the shadow of the church where they had worshipped , but were carried away into some strange suburb . |
| 14 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 15 | There was about her something distant and mysterious , Cadfael thought , as if a part of her being was charmed away into some private and pleasant place , even while her blue eyes dwelt upon her husband and his friend with sharp intelligence , following the argument back and forth with a kind of indulgent and amused affection , appropriate to a matriarch watching her children . |
| 16 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 17 | His legs will probably fall off at some stupid rave if he 's not careful he 'll be dancing so much cos he 's on twenty thousand and his bloody legs 'll fall off . |
| 18 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 19 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 20 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 21 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 22 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 23 | The Royal Society has now come up with some concrete recommendations for broader-based science education and postponement of specialisation . |
| 24 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 25 | I know that many of you have already come up with some interesting ideas on seventy fifth theme . |
| 26 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 27 | A plant yes , because if you 're solving problems you want somebody to come up with some good ideas to get you out of your rut . |
| 28 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 29 | After working through this example try to come up with some other bass line/double-stop ideas of your own . |
| 30 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |