Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 2 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 3 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 4 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 5 | If men were beginning to abandon their fear of hell , they were clinging with some tenacity to their hopes of heaven , as we shall see in chapter nine . |
| 6 | The framework knitters enjoyed such a time between 1755 and 1785 , continuing to some extent to 1804 , and William Radcliffe described such an age for cotton hand-loom weavers from 1788 to 1803 . |
| 7 | Yet he had been unable to deny , especially when alcohol had begun to leech the starch from his scholarly brain , that her avid interest in the distant doings of Everett , Morpurgo and the Tyrrell Society was inexplicable , unless it constituted a cause corresponding in some way to the effect of her disappearance . |
| 8 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |