Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 2 | Mrs Clamp has come across with some details on sporadic occasions , too , though they are probably no more to be relied on than what my father 's told me . |
| 3 | For many people it seems to mean freedom to do what someone else has done before with some success , and initially this seemed to be the best course to take . |
| 4 | The Woodhayne herd , established in 1984 , has benefited greatly from some top class foundation cattle and the influence of the bull Rousham Gulliver , a son of the prepotent Gorse Favourite . |
| 5 | All this has coincided perhaps with some inevitable over-optimism . |
| 6 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 7 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 8 | Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil . |
| 9 | Perianal warts are frequently found at the same time as genital warts and there need be no assumption that anal intercourse has taken place , although it will have done so in some 50 per cent of cases . |
| 10 | They may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question and , because a sexual relationship may involve a degree of compromise , she may sometimes have agreed only with some reluctance to such intercourse . |
| 11 | All for money — yet if he 'd got legless and run someone over and killed them , he 'd have got away with some poxy little sentence . |
| 12 | The sufferer from addictive disease , as his or her world progressively falls apart , may have clung desperately to some very individual interpretations of reality simply in order to survive . |
| 13 | Hitchcock should have worried more about some of the dull and static sequences earlier in the film , after which the bus chase comes as something of a lift , even if overextended . |
| 14 | It must have struck home in some way . |
| 15 | Two thirds of teachers claim to have contributed directly to some of their schools ' report , a further quarter have contributed to most of it and 7 per cent to all of it . |
| 16 | Both women and girls appear to have worked underground in some of the Lancashire pits in the eighteenth century but had ceased to do so by 1815 . |
| 17 | She narrowed her eyes at him and warned him icily , ‘ If you 've come here with some idea of trying to block my petition to become Kirsty 's guardian , I warn you right now you 're wasting your time ! ’ |
| 18 | But if , and most of are I 'm sure that we 've come today with some thorn in our flesh somewhere , some worry , some difficulty or a disappointment perhaps of some kind , then just remember that in all things God works together for good with those who love him , and for that rejoice and give thanks , and again I say , rejoice . |
| 19 | We 've looked particularly at some of the kinds of er , issues , that black and ethnic minority groups experience in that area . |
| 20 | Except , I thought , now some vultures had learned about it , and had got away with some . |
| 21 | Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse . |
| 22 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 23 | Broadman had slipped away into some back room , he noticed . |
| 24 | I had put in about two hours detecting time by now and these were the only two non-ferrous items I had found apart from some scrap lead . |
| 25 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 26 | A comp is held by popular demand , but although there was a good turnout by competitors and supporters , it seemed as if the old Farnborough magic had gone forever despite some damn radical action from Jeff Hedges . |
| 27 | The flinty look in Pargeter 's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way . |
| 28 | For her it had worked well in some ways but not in others , which had mainly to do with the relationship between her and her foster mother after her son Sean was born . |
| 29 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 30 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |