Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 2 | Susie Terhune 's crew laid down some heavy fire . |
| 3 | Let's pause for a while in order to breathe in some pure air . |
| 4 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 5 | But the team has shown it has potential and we now want to help that talent by bringing in some experienced players . ’ |
| 6 | Hell , the first time we met you were bringing in some by-hand-of-bearer letter telling us we were trying to depose the monarchy devalue the pound and make the natives play baseball instead of cricket . |
| 7 | And Strudwick intends to take full advantage by bringing in some tough Aussies during their off-season . |
| 8 | Consider this brief passage , from an essay by a non-native speaker ( numbers have been added to identify sentences ) : [ 1 ] One of the functions of a literary work is to pass on some crucial truths or information , give some didactic indications , or convince the reader of some general laws . |
| 9 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 10 | The Tories would not be allowed to keep Jeffrey Archer and Labour could be forced to distance itself from Ben Elton , who is known to frighten off some middle-of-the-road autograph hunters . |
| 11 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 12 | I asked him if he would be willing to meet some members of the House , if Lucy and I fixed up some small dinner parties after my resignation . |
| 13 | Obviously he assumed that she had picked up some instant Romeo , and it was clear from his tone and expression that he condemned her as cheap and shallow . |
| 14 | Also , he had picked up some rare Charles Trenet and Johnny Halliday musichips . |
| 15 | When they returned with cameramen , the advance production team had picked up some local teenagers for the film . |
| 16 | She has picked up some driving tricks from the SAS . |
| 17 | While Chorus is signing up some impressive allies , including the Santa Cruz Operation , Tandem , ICL and Inmos , Carnegie-Mellon 's Mach has found favour with the US defense industry . |
| 18 | Surveying these now prosaically productive acres of beet and potato , it is as hard to imagine their undrained state as if one were trying to conjure up some fabulous landscape lost beyond recall . |
| 19 | Nigel and Elinor practised the tango to work up some more passion . |
| 20 | There were two options available at this stage — either to manually tag the corpus or to try out some automatic determination of the tags . |
| 21 | ‘ Hi , ’ William says , tossing back some blond hair fallen over his forehead . |
| 22 | It 's especially important on health boards so we can win back some public confidence regarding the NHS . ’ |
| 23 | Sorted out some more work to be photocopied . |
| 24 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 25 | OSF also rolled out some future development plans in its Open Road plan . |
| 26 | But while he was there , he also carried out some private research into the potential for amusement machines in pubs which the government had just legalised . |
| 27 | The interviews were carried out some ten months after the initiation of the courses , and included students who had taken part in some twenty courses . |
| 28 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 29 | Is it possible to work out some fancy way of writing this headline , so that it implies its meaning ? |
| 30 | On the Max Wall , Keith Sharples and Jim Kelly meeted out some Rough Justice E6 6b/c ( F7c ) , just to the right of Maxwell House . |