Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason it seemed to kick down some of the barrier of strangeness between them . |
| 2 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 3 | I DID N'T sleep too well on the night before our last Inter-Continental Cup match against Cuba in Poznan — I woke up at six o'clock in the morning thinking about the future of the Irish hockey team and began to put down some of my ideas on paper . |
| 4 | Paul enjoyed the talk at the Professor 's house , the give and take of ideas ; presently he began to sketch out some of these at the lodging , and before many weeks had passed had a book on his hands . |
| 5 | But , as he always found room in his life for north Oxfordshire and his family , he also enjoyed setting down some of his local preoccupations and irritations . |
| 6 | Due to a crowded hard disk on my Compaq LTE 286/40 , I decided to back up some of my files ( using the switch/S for subdirectories ) onto 3.5-inch floppies , and delete the directories to create more space . |
| 7 | I started reading out some of the advertisements from a magazine of 1890 or so : ‘ Ladies ’ Safe Remedy : Apioline . |
| 8 | He took a seat in solemn silence and , uninvited , started to roll up some of the Keraing 's tobacco . |
| 9 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 10 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | He had to buy off some of Wednesday night 's rebels by promising them that the Maastricht Treaty would not come before the Commons again until after Denmark held another referendum in May . |
| 12 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 13 | Maria had brought out no money , but she had smuggled out some of her jewels . |
| 14 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
| 15 | Electors in various parts of the country had cleared out some of the cranks who were prostitutes in the Labour movement in order to get into the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is now alleging that Berkeley Software Design Inc , the start-up it 's suing for copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets ( UX No 392 , 396 , 413 ) , plagiarised Unix line-for-line in portions of its BSD/386 operating system and attempted to cover up some of the copying . |
| 17 | If , for instance , I volunteered to give up some of my bone marrow to save a person suffering from leukaemia , then , so long as my own health was not in danger , there would seem to be nothing wrong with my momentarily relinquishing my autonomy . |
| 18 | I just wanted to bring up some of the underlying reasons for depression , and one of the large things that society is having to address just now is child sexual abuse |