Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his .
2 There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you .
3 He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof .
4 It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it .
5 Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’
6 Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today .
7 Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours .
8 Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time .
9 ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage .
10 ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ?
11 She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er
12 The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy .
13 It only requires behaviour to be broken down into some specifics , the equivalent of building blocks , and for those specifics to be cast into a coherent plan of action .
14 And if you want to collect ready made salad type things from M&S I am sure you can eat in on some evenings by arrangement , depending on our social plans .
15 you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah
16 But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership .
17 Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company .
18 Logging is still carried on in some areas .
19 He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage .
20 I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee .
21 The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism .
22 However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action .
23 He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy .
24 And his friend Rachel ( ‘ She 's a singer ’ ) has just dropped in with some presents from her mom , and the bluesman tells us his old voice is starting to go , and our audience is finished .
25 But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered .
26 He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot .
27 And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ .
28 It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing .
29 But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story .
30 In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype .
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