Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 2 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 3 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 4 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 5 | I am not surprised that the Minister looks away with some embarrassment . |
| 6 | Constipation develops gradually in some children as a result of a progressive decrease in the frequency of bowel movements and a progressive increase in the difficulties in passing an excessively firm stool . |
| 7 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 8 | Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . " |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 10 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 11 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |
| 12 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 13 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 14 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 15 | The demon coughed nervously ( demons do not breathe ; however , every intelligent being , whether it breathes or not , coughs nervously at some time in its life . |
| 16 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 17 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
| 18 | Blimey leave it out Malcolm , said Steve when he heard that one , that sounds more like some poncey wine bar . |
| 19 | The depth of treatment varies enormously with some chapters reading like research articles in a primary journal , and others offering a gentle but thorough introduction to an interested outsider . |
| 20 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 21 | The wasp strays in , eats a little honey , warms itself , tries to sting and travels out to some winter lair . |
| 22 | The day is gone when a girl waits around till some man needs a wife . |
| 23 | ‘ As Mr. Pannick says , it cries out for some explanation from the board . |
| 24 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 25 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing 's lost , ’ he says and bang goes another drawing for 2d. or nothing , while he dreams off to some café to borrow some paper . |
| 27 | An account of Sir Kenneth Cork 's contribution to the accountancy and charitable bodies reads flatly without some attempt to record , among other things , his involvement in the International Year for the Disabled and his encouragement to me when I instituted fro Accountancy the ( now ) annual award for the Best Report for the Accounts of a Charity ( writes Colin Cassie , former associate editor of Accountancy . ) |
| 28 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 29 | Hardly an issue of a computer magazine goes by without some mention , editorial or advertisement , of desktop publishing . |
| 30 | Barbara finds the carcass of a huge snake , Susan and Ian stumble across a mound of eggs guarded by a giant ant ( fortunately also dead ) , while the Doctor mutters darkly about some intelligence having carved these channels in the rocks , but for what purpose ? |