Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 2 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 3 | If I continue then with some introductory remarks erm on policy H one a and one A , perhaps that would set the scene er for the discussion , then Mr will very briefly erm look at the differences as he sees them between the two sets erm of projections . |
| 4 | This effectively gives a much smaller ‘ weight ’ to reference resolution than to other parts of the system ; two interpretations that differ only in the referents they assign to anaphors will be much closer together in the sequence of structures presented to the plausibility checker than two interpretations that differ only in some other respect , such as an alternation of word senses . |
| 5 | and turn left down some worn steps into night |
| 6 | In their ‘ kitchen ’ ( a sink , a hot plate and a kettle , with no proper cooking or storage facilities ) , they point proudly to some Tory Party mugs they had biked over from Smith Square after the election . |
| 7 | It may be observed that equations of the form x = q + Fx arise naturally in some dynamical or quasi-static problems , e.g. the distortion of a structure under applied load , when the load is varied by the distortion . |
| 8 | Semi-Vowel A gliding sound in which the speech organs start at or near a " close " vowel and immediately move away to some other vowel ( or occasionally to some other sound of equal or greater prominence , such as syllabic /I/ ) . |
| 9 | Local writer Thomas Hurtley ( who also , by the way , thought the Dales peaks at least as high as those in the Alps ) called Gordale a " Stupendous Pavilion of Sable Rock apparently rent asunder by some dreadful although inscrutable elementary convulsion " . |
| 10 | Sometimes , as in south-east Somerset , Dunsmore in Warwickshire , Ready Token in Gloucestershire , and Rymer , Breckland , in Norfolk , they come together at some common feature , such as an upland pond in a generally waterless area , an area of upland waste , or a piece of shared woodland . |
| 11 | It is certainly not impossible that these apparently isolated strands come together in some actual or supposed connection between Molla Fenari and Seyh Bedreddin and that Husameddin 's extended and ingenious gloss on Ibn Hajar 's brief statement-the placement of which must indeed be taken into account-has some , possibly much , truth in it . |
| 12 | They relate closely to some key debates about the nature of historical explanation of family relationships and family change , as between the ‘ household economics ’ and the ‘ sentiments ’ schools of historical explanation ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | A more sophisticated form of level two is the coalition , where partners work together for some common purpose but do not have an identity of interest or concern and where one or other of the partners may withdraw leaving the other partner(s) to continue . |