Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to realise for some considerable time the importance of commitment from the top down . |
| 2 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 3 | ‘ Now that I 'm earning again , I want to invest in some good quality , classic outfits , ’ said Pamela , whose standard work clothes were drab navy skirts teamed with various coloured blouses . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to put in some shells and seaweed first . ’ |
| 5 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |
| 6 | Here I want to focus on some examples from recent textbooks for O level and CSE courses . |
| 7 | First , I want to comment on some features of the hereditary mechanism which may prove to be characteristic of all living things , whether on this planet or elsewhere in the universe . |
| 8 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 9 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 10 | I want to look at some general features of the 28 projects that we are studying . |
| 11 | Was I destined to die in some far away theatre of war ? |
| 12 | By working co-operatively , long-term , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 13 | By working co-operatively , longterm , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 14 | In fact , with my spartan diet and my gentleman 's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs ( a freedom I thought , compared to others ' great domed rucksacks ) , I began to feel like some travelling ascetic , roaming through ‘ the vast cinema of sensation . ’ |
| 15 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 17 | And then I started to understand at some deep level that it is not only the dream-world one desires but the world one imagines . |
| 18 | I managed to pass behind some tall screens on which those ridiculously huge contemporary paintings , works of the utmost nullity , were hung , and crept cautiously round a group of cranky statues . |
| 19 | I took him , though , and I went to live with some friends . |
| 20 | I start to think for some reason about the idea of being all right . |
| 21 | I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it . |
| 22 | More sophisticated , more polite , perhaps ; but ‘ easier ’ suggested that I had to pass through some ordeal . |
| 23 | I wished to work on some panels too wide to be held in my Workmate , which has a maximum opening of about 10½in . |
| 24 | This brings me to the second part of this paper in which I wish to turn to some of the ‘ challenges ’ a UK government archivist faces in attempting to implement an archival records management programme in government . |
| 25 | I wish to deal with some of the key issues in the intergovernmental conferences — first , the question of a single currency . |
| 26 | Editor , — I wish to protest about some of the teaching in the latest edition of the First Aid Manual by the St John Ambulance , the St Andrew 's Ambulance Association , and the British Red Cross . |
| 27 | Every day I have to go through some sort of treatment . |
| 28 | Maybe I wanted to go into some other field , get into politics . |
| 29 | That was just I wa I wanted to get like some |
| 30 | The atmosphere between them seemed to vibrate with some invisible electricity . |