Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If judicial review is seen as going further and being concerned with the protection of groups as well as individuals , standing rules should only require that the applicant show that he , she or it shares some interest with others . |
| 2 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 3 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 4 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 5 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 6 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 7 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 8 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 9 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 10 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 11 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 12 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 13 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 14 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 15 | Ramsay made a swift decision — and it demanded some resolution , since it would entail cost . |
| 16 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
| 17 | And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense . |
| 18 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |
| 19 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 20 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 21 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 22 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 23 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 24 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 25 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 26 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 27 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 28 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 29 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 30 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |