Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessary to use the form to make a defence , the defendant only needs to submit some document indicating that the claim is disputed . |
| 2 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 3 | Dexter smiled : Blanche had obviously decided to show some independence now that the press conference had begun . |
| 4 | Right I suppose I 've better got to do some housework Gail . |
| 5 | The structures so produced have some properties of a linguistic analysis of the definitions and some properties of a semantic definition of word sense concepts , and they take the basic syntactic form of nested feature lists . |
| 6 | The elephant and tapir of Sumatra and Borneo , the rhinoceros of Sumatra and the allied species of Java , the wild cattle of Borneo of the kind long supposed to be peculiar to Java , are now all known to inhabit some part or other of Southern Asia . |
| 7 | Erm I perhaps do have some sympathy for Harrogate 's position . |
| 8 | To do so means asking some questions about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the male compositors " trade union , the Scottish Typographical Association ( STA ) and in particular its Edinburgh branch , the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; about the potential recruits for strike-breaking , whether these were non-union men , apprentice boys or women and girls ; and about the circumstances in which the first women crossed the threshold of Messrs Constable 's and Chambers 's offices in December 1872 or January 1873 . |
| 9 | The Pacific , as is surely now evident , is an Ocean which , while long trying to assume some kind of unity , is plagued by a grossly inconvenient diversity . |
| 10 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 11 | This is Ireland 's first official participation in the prestigious competition which involves 24 nations , and they are naturally hoping to find some sort of coordination and rhythm in the run-up to the World Cup Sevens in Edinburgh on April 16–18 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 13 | This is most effectively done using some variant of the ‘ whistle-a-happy-tune ’ strategy . |
| 14 | Armstrong , meanwhile , was doggedly struggling to create some sort of classification system , a Domesday Book in miniature , for the Cabinet committees . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just come to get some pastries for tea … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's time we had an outstanding international , ’ said the English coach who , without any sour grapes after Wales 's win at Cardiff , desperately wants to see some back play , sadly missing in most of the Five Nations games so far . |
| 17 | When he finally pauses to suck some air , I say , ‘ Me not telling the cops is worth ten thousand quid , I reckon . |
| 18 | eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for |
| 19 | Yeah I just want to get some orange juice . |
| 20 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 21 | The brown-haired boy had caught the eyes of the twins again and was desperately attempting to relay some kind of message to them . |
| 22 | What 's in there , we 've got biscuits , I 'm just going to get some raisins , alright , they 're just up here , you stay there . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , but I was just going to make some coffee , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 24 | We were just going to make some scrapes along the bank there . |
| 25 | I 'm just going to make some tea . |
| 26 | ah , I 've just got to do some cooking , bit of cleaning |
| 27 | Charlotte mummy get cross with you if you start this nonsense , just got to get some dog food and some bread then we can go home , O K ? |
| 28 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 29 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 30 | And , indeed , he was already beginning to write some poetry . |