Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 2 | Although the relocation firms use bilingual counsellors when helping foreign transferees to find property , this is not considered enough help by some companies . |
| 3 | ‘ I arrive home after an absence of four weeks to discover that my nephew , my only sister 's eldest child , has apparently eloped with some teenage siren , to the distress of his parents and the possible detriment of his career . |
| 4 | There was a long silence during which she tried desperately to think of some further topic of conversation — just to keep him here a little longer . |
| 5 | Torquil Cowan , head of Longfield comprehensive in Darlington , has already written to some parents voicing his concern about the number of children roving the streets . |
| 6 | Considerable exploration effort in those areas has been felt by the industry to be worthwhile , and in the United States has already met with some commercial success . |
| 7 | This has already begun in some parts of the country . |
| 8 | This has already begun in some parts of the country , including Wiltshire . |
| 9 | Indeed the abolition of the GLC and metropolitan county councils , coupled with the recent development in inner-city areas of enterprise zones , city task forces and urban development corporations , has already meant in some localities a reduced role for elected councils in local service provision . |
| 10 | The proposal for a Severn barrage has also led to some public debate , chiefly on environment issues . |
| 11 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 12 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 13 | I want now to look at some of these images of the female self in feminist discourse : my particular examples are from the work of Mary Daly , Marilyn Frye and Kate Millett . |
| 14 | I want now to look at some aspects of self-experience that I think should be central to any theory of self , and hence to any discussion of women 's autonomy . |
| 15 | The theory is that development for a Third World country is not possible within the orbit of capitalist imperialism , a dependency theory of the type discussed in Chapter 2 ; while the experience is that FDI has often led to some ‘ development ’ , apparently for the benefit of all . |
| 16 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 17 | That number has now increased to some 340,000. 95% of patients are detained without their consent , at a rate of 250 per 100,000 population , compared with just 2.5 per 100,000 in Europe . |
| 18 | That figure has now risen to some 86 per cent. , which shows the Government 's achievement . |
| 19 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 20 | Improbable as it may seem this has actually happened with some success . |
| 21 | A further consequence , which has certainly met with some interesting results , is that for certain types of advertising campaign it is possible actively to involve the public . |
| 22 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't look so alarmed , ’ Guy murmured wryly , seeing her sudden concern as he ducked below to turn on some lights . |
| 24 | I 'm going upstairs to listen to some music |
| 25 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 26 | Any others , come on , you know just think about some things your receptionist would do . |
| 27 | I gave the money to a thankfully dumb-struck fiddle-player on Sauchiehall Street and walked away feeling like some sort of martyred saint . |
| 28 | I seem to have become rapidly drunk on some sort of embarrassing lower-middle class drink like Bacardi and blackcurrant — thereby leaving myself open to mockery from clever left-wing improvisation playwrights . |
| 29 | New York was –30 miles away and , apart from business trips , he only ever returned there to compete in some of the city 's more gruelling and arduous marathons . |
| 30 | I mean now talking to some of the girls a lot of their parents are very strict on them . |