Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 2 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 3 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 4 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 5 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 6 | Lastly , always sleep with some ventilation in bedrooms to prevent night-time condensation there ; if it 's too cold to have the window ajar , then leave the bedroom door open instead . |
| 7 | After the Coniston mines were started , the miners , despite the convenience of a place of worship in Coniston itself used the Hawkshead church of St. Michael and All Angels , and as may be expected , their names appear with some frequency in the registers . |
| 8 | During the early 1840's the following girls appear with some regularity in the accounts : Mary Briggs 6d. a day , Hannah Cowper 6d , Hannah and Susannah Kempe 5d. & 6d. , Sarah Lawton 5d. , Hannah Smith 6d. , Sarah Tomlinson 6d. , Mary Thompson 6d. , Mary Ann Townson 6d. , and Agnes and Hannah Woodburn 6d. and 5d . |
| 9 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 10 | The beginnings of the style appear in some ivories from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 11 | From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults . |
| 12 | The discoveries mentioned there of some of the world 's best mathematicians should whet the appetite for , and also place in some kind of perspective , the mathematics covered in Chapters 1 through 6 . |
| 13 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 14 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 15 | Their involvement with parts of the Stop The Clause campaign , their support for AIDS-related benefits , their meetings with the Metropolitan Police , their re-vitalization of the financially flagging London Lesbian and Gay Centre , all testify to some commitment to the community . |
| 16 | In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development . |
| 17 | He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification . |
| 18 | ‘ We hope for some sort of strengthened glass and double locks , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Presumably the replicators act as some kind of mould or template . |
| 20 | I conclude with some remarks about various points of view in moral philosophy which bear on the claims of the attitude theory . |
| 21 | perhaps I was expected to laugh heartily ; or indeed , reciprocate with some remark of my own . |
| 22 | [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors . |
| 23 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 24 | It is quite possible that trace minerals and access to plants not available the rest of the year are essential for the fertilisation , hatching and development of fry in some species of fish that have proved difficult to breed in the past . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're rich — not like us — you shake in some rubies for his lips , some sapphires for his eyes — or topazes , if you like them yellowy — ’ Caterina shifted , resisting ‘ — some diamonds for his fingernails and so forth , all the treasures you like , to make him beautiful as the sky , as the sea , as the earth , and then you murmur the secret formula … . ’ |
| 27 | Almost all of these elements depend in some way for their initial success on the brigade 's own advanced forces , the Pathfinder Platoon . |
| 28 | I hope this collection of information and anecdotes , which form an integral part of the story of sound recording itself , will inspire readers to visit the National Sound Archive and listen to some treasures for themselves . |
| 29 | It 's not Edward King , the man who was actually drowned and whom , as it happens , Milton hardly knew , it 's Lucidas , the figure of the young poet , priest , put to some extent on a classical model that he is writing about . |
| 30 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |