Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 3 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 4 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 5 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 6 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 7 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 8 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 9 | It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart . |
| 10 | First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 12 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 13 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 14 | He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way . |
| 15 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 16 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 17 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 18 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 19 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 20 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 21 | This includes a good proportion of the population as , in addition to persons currently employed by the state , many others have been employed by it at some earlier stage in their lives . |
| 22 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 23 | It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly . |
| 24 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 25 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 26 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 27 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 28 | Erm but , at it at its worst I mean the worst publicity followed this this incident of a an elderly lady having her fingers broken and and money stolen off her by some some lads in their I do n't know late early teens I think . |
| 29 | Valletta had loomed against it like some huge medieval fortress , the fabled kingdom of some fantastic fairy-tale … |
| 30 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |