Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 2 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 3 | Mr. Stirling attended the auction and bought some vehicles . |
| 4 | ‘ Want to go to a club and see some damage done ? ’ |
| 5 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
| 6 | Michael Parkinson , who presented the programme and added some credence to it by his presence , said afterwards : ‘ It just shows what a capacity television has for delusion . ’ |
| 7 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 8 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 9 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 10 | They say the emergence of large purchasing consortiums could lead to the merger of the Northern Region 's 16 districts into six super districts , leading to confusion and prompting some staff to quit . |
| 11 | We can go in your roof and shoot some cars . |
| 12 | You could also thinly spread some glue on the cracker and sprinkle some glitter powder over it . |
| 13 | Fenella offered to make her some hot sweet tea and fetch some chocolate biscuits from downstairs to comfort her . |
| 14 | She made herself some tea and took some aspirin and paced about the flat . |
| 15 | Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal . |
| 16 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 17 | The Centre is also engaged in research training ( supervising graduate research and providing some undergraduate teaching ) , in organising conferences and seminars ; in publishing both substantial pieces of original research on socio-legal topics and other socio-legal materials , such as bibliographies ) ; in providing an institutional locus for visiting scholars from elsewhere in Britain and from overseas , and in responding to a growing demand for advice and information about socio-legal studies in a variety of ways . |
| 18 | For herself she was relieved she did n't have to struggle to harness their zippy , anarchic minds any more to a future of filing and fast food shoppers — till for Christ 's sake let's get married and turn on the telly and have some peace . |
| 19 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 20 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going to hire a car and do some touring , ’ he declared . |
| 22 | Now that would be the normal peacetime lead time if we could accelerate that in industry and find some way of doing it then it may well be possible to do in quicker time than that . |
| 23 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 24 | For the next hour or two , Mr Handford tried to rectify the fault in the chilly darkness , but as it proved impossible , he decided to wait until daylight and to get some sleep meanwhile . |
| 25 | The government 's anti-religious campaign in connection with the Church 's alleged refusal to donate money and valuables for the Famine crippled the reputation of church aid and made some priests unwilling to become entangled in relief work . |
| 26 | Finally I twisted together lengths of red and white yarn to make a rope for the sledge and stitched some stars around the moon to add to the frosty effect . |
| 27 | They moved on to see some fellows working on a lovely Galway hooker raised on sleepers at the waterside , then crossed to a quiet little bar and had some Beamishes . |
| 28 | Afterwards we went to a bar and had some cognac . |
| 29 | He went into an espresso bar and drank some coffee . |
| 30 | But they all counted as pieces on the diplomatic chessboard and enjoyed some sort of self-government ; it is convenient to regard them at this point as comparable entities . |