Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or helping to write some plays . |
| 2 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 3 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 4 | Anything in writing is a guarantee if it " contains or purports to contain some promise or assurance " ( s5(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 5 | Those who are not familiar with this background , or wish to take some advantage of it , be they customers , arbitrators , or the exchange 's own employees or members , are often suspicious about claims as to the form this business background takes , and its relevance to the matter in hand . |
| 6 | For example , in the US , two that appear to have some merit are the Certified Human Service Worker assessment procedure ( National Commission for Human Service Workers , 1983 ) and the Child Development Associate training and assessment programme ( Office of Child Development , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Another facoured delivery system , or vector , is adenovirus : this is a bit bigger , and enters the cell via specific receptors that seem to provide some protection from breakdown of the nucleic acid once inside the human cell . |
| 8 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 9 | One could go on almost indefinitely finding examples of sudden dramatic natural events within the memory of man that help to explain some aspects of the geological past . |
| 10 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 11 | Er so that 's , that 's what we are , criminal , we do n't want to get caught and want to get some money and th the way we 're going to do it is to break into our house . |
| 12 | But when we generate profits abroad , and want to pay some dividends to our shareholders , we are told : sorry , you 'll have to offset those against your UK profits only ; which we ca n't do . |
| 13 | Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit . |
| 14 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 15 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 16 | Putting her mug down , she rubbed her fingers along her arm and tried to chafe some heat into her cool flesh . |
| 17 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 18 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 19 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 20 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 21 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 22 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 23 | I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations . |
| 24 | When we reach the face-to-face negotiations , the parties themselves will be able to confront their ideological and territorial difficulties and seek to reach some kind of compromise . |
| 25 | Once , this had been an expanse of perfect , squared masonry , but three years of siege and three months of heavy bombardment had produced enough gouges and bruising to offer some kind of a foothold . |
| 26 | Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily . |
| 27 | Maybe summat special is happening and they 're rushing to get there , cos they look real excited and busy and hurrying to get some place . |
| 28 | Show some competence in the structures of written Standard English and begin to use some sentence structures different from those which are characteristic of speech , eg a wider range of subordinate clauses , expanded noun phrases etc . |
| 29 | ‘ What in God 's name made those noises ? ’ blurted Edgar , looking around , as if expecting to see some scene of carnage . |
| 30 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |