Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] some [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 2 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 3 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 4 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 5 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 6 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 7 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 8 | Now er I 'm thinking in in the case of er perhaps a young accountant advising on financial management who finds something odd and perhaps he reports it direct to the authorities , will he be covered or will he have to go through some procedure in order to bring himself within the protection ? |
| 9 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 10 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 11 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 12 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 13 | Such realities , as pressing for some heads in the suburbs as in the inner city , presented an agenda which primary orthodoxies addressed only partly , if at all . |
| 14 | They may be precipitated locally ( Thompson , 1959 ) or carried for some distance in solution ( Bathurst , 1975 ; Wanless , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Of course , for early EDI users , getting two computers , one 's own and one belonging to a trading partner , to talk to one another , was quite enough of a challenge , without worrying about other people you and your partners might want to communicate with some time in the future . |
| 16 | Lastly , always sleep with some ventilation in bedrooms to prevent night-time condensation there ; if it 's too cold to have the window ajar , then leave the bedroom door open instead . |
| 17 | On 3 September 1939 he still had no criminal record , though his name occurred with some frequency in the secret reports of the Special Branch and M15 . |
| 18 | After the Coniston mines were started , the miners , despite the convenience of a place of worship in Coniston itself used the Hawkshead church of St. Michael and All Angels , and as may be expected , their names appear with some frequency in the registers . |
| 19 | During the early 1840's the following girls appear with some regularity in the accounts : Mary Briggs 6d. a day , Hannah Cowper 6d , Hannah and Susannah Kempe 5d. & 6d. , Sarah Lawton 5d. , Hannah Smith 6d. , Sarah Tomlinson 6d. , Mary Thompson 6d. , Mary Ann Townson 6d. , and Agnes and Hannah Woodburn 6d. and 5d . |
| 20 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 21 | His idea was that these have to be fused in some way in industrial societies otherwise such societies could not survive . |
| 22 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 23 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 24 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 25 | Kathryn Cullen of Swansea is sure that she lives in some capacity in World War II . |
| 26 | Matadial referred in some detail in her evidence to five or six occasions between October 1986 and the end of the year when she had discussed with the defendant his frequent beating and threatening of Paulette . |
| 27 | The processes by which such negotiations are conducted are considered in some detail in chapter 7 . |
| 28 | Each of these are considered in some detail in section two , below . |
| 29 | It will also be considered in some detail in parts of succeeding chapters on alphabetical indexing languages and alphabetical indexing systems . |
| 30 | ( The distinctions among different types of property complexes are considered in some detail in Chapter 8 . ) : |