Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Those who are not familiar with this background , or wish to take some advantage of it , be they customers , arbitrators , or the exchange 's own employees or members , are often suspicious about claims as to the form this business background takes , and its relevance to the matter in hand .
2 Er so that 's , that 's what we are , criminal , we do n't want to get caught and want to get some money and th the way we 're going to do it is to break into our house .
3 But when we generate profits abroad , and want to pay some dividends to our shareholders , we are told : sorry , you 'll have to offset those against your UK profits only ; which we ca n't do .
4 Yes erm , we 've actually linked with a firm of independent mortgage brokers erm so rather than being tied to a particular building society as most estate agents are erm what they will do is they 'll shop around and tell you which lenders are offering the best terms and particularly good schemes at any one time erm , it 's literally free information they simply phone you up and say get some idea of what your salary is and what your requirements are and then they 'll send through some information for you .
5 Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit .
6 I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations .
7 In his bid to make the top eight and earn Iron some cash from the Beazer Homes kitty , he keeps faith with the squad that outplayed Witney last week after Glenn Russell 's dismissal , but still lost 3–1 .
8 There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know .
9 When we reach the face-to-face negotiations , the parties themselves will be able to confront their ideological and territorial difficulties and seek to reach some kind of compromise .
10 Turning more directly now to À la recherche itself , one can say I think that its many images of search and travel provide some justification for the sub-title of this talk , ‘ The Novelist as Explorer ’ .
11 Show some competence in the structures of written Standard English and begin to use some sentence structures different from those which are characteristic of speech , eg a wider range of subordinate clauses , expanded noun phrases etc .
12 Do n't be timid , but apply the colour freely and quickly , and try to give some life to the reflections and water , a this lower half blue-green will be the dominant feature of the painting .
13 Take this , and try to talk some sense into your dad if you can .
14 Visit a bird sanctuary and try to spot some winter bird visitors .
15 When decorating the tank use a mixture of smooth , rounded pebbles and plants and try to include some bamboo shoots ( Arundinaria ) .
16 I move again and try to write some notes , but it is cold enough to freeze the ballpoint off my biro .
17 Parents often feel that their children should not have everything that they ask for and try to provide some restraint .
18 They may act as presidential emissaries to the largely autonomous empires of the bureaucracy and try to instil some loyalty to the programme of the President in their department .
19 Joy said that this really was n't on and that they must pull up at the side of the road and try to find some stones or something with which to wedge the coffin .
20 ‘ But I suppose we ought to be sensible and try to get some sleep , ’ she added reluctantly .
21 And , then that famous man who died just recently , Finniston was asked to er , present a report to the government about ten years ago , in which he was going to knock the heads together again and try to get some kind of er organisation which would actually get the institutions to cooperate and coordinate their activities and that was the beginning of the Engineering Council .
22 Go and send your telegram , and then come back and try to have some food when you can , ’ she said .
23 Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club .
24 It only remains for you to push forward on the joystick and go kick some butt .
25 My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule .
26 ‘ I just wish the Cabinet would clear its lines and start producing some kind of simple understandable message , ’ he said .
27 He says , we know that you 're a great teacher , you 've come from God otherwise you could n't do these things , and er , he was undoubtedly gon na go and ask , and start asking some questions from then , but Jesus comes straight in and he really deals with the issue , the real problem in Nicodemus 's life .
28 eh ? what I was thinking of doing was getting a , have a go aye you know builders merchant , pick up some plaster if its a wet day and start doing some plastering in there
29 Neither girls nor boys of this age usually want to tell their parents exactly what they are doing , and prefer to preserve some distance , as Denise describes .
30 I have altered the depth consistently during the day and have tempted some fish almost two feet off the bottom .
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