Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 2 | If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness . |
| 3 | As well as good documentation and ‘ driving ’ information for the user , as described on page 35 , it is also very important to document the computer program as a further aid to those who wish to understand how the program works or modify it in some way . |
| 4 | Hardy suggests two types of strategy which may be used to turn conflict into competition or argument , or to manage it in some other acceptable way . |
| 5 | If we do something pleasant to a horse , like worming it , or giving injection , or something else , we are likely to care and stroke it afterwards , or to reward it in some other way , such as with food . |
| 6 | It is an open question whether this higher-level information dictates the lower-level interpretation ( as in HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II ) or enhances it through some sort of feedback mechanism ( as in TRACE ) , or selects it from a pool of candidates . |
| 7 | He wanted to grasp the newness , or to measure it in some way , hardly daring to hope that it was good . |
| 8 | If it 's a concrete floor you could either put down a new wood floor or tile it with some sort of composition tile or sheeting like vinyl or linoleum which is showing quite a revival . |
| 9 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 10 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 11 | I E or formalize it in some way . |
| 12 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 13 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 14 | Equally , it is also important for parents to apologise to their children when they have wronged or harmed them in some way . |
| 15 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 16 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 17 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 18 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 19 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 20 | Intergraph Corp has decided it will standardise on Menlo Park , California-based Versant Object Technology Corp 's eponymous object-oriented database , reselling the product and using it in some future products . |
| 21 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’ |
| 23 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 24 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 25 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 26 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 27 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 28 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 29 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 30 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |