Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 2 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 3 | ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘ |
| 4 | Today children are meeting and playing with children of other faiths so it is important for them to have some understanding and knowledge of each other 's traditions . |
| 5 | At this point there is need for me to give some detail about the shape and nature of the primary curriculum to which all children should have access . |
| 6 | I 've found that it was very necessary for me to take some time to get a grasp of what is a very complex situation and it would be rather foolish to jump in too quickly . |
| 7 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 8 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
| 9 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely it is n't asking too much of you to put some clothes on , Your Highness . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever is ultimately decided by the boards and the UKCC it is still in your own and your patients interests for you to undertake some form of formal updating , even if for the moment this is left to your own and your employer 's discretion . |
| 12 | They 're calling for you to give some sort of speech . ’ |
| 13 | It would be just like her to expect some recompense for whoever caused the crash . |
| 14 | Will you come , come with me to get some cigarettes ? |
| 15 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 16 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 17 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 18 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
| 19 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 20 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 21 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 22 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |
| 23 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 24 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 25 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 26 | ‘ Where would I be without you to knock some sense into my thick head ? ’ he said tenderly . |
| 27 | But it is up to you to make some decisions , however small , and to put them into action . |
| 28 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 29 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 30 | It 's very heartening that the A T C are actually looking to us to do some work with them , and that they actually think that Oxford is moving forward in the right direction , and that they actually want to come and share some of our knowledge . |