Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] some [noun sg] " 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 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . " |
| 6 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |
| 7 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 10 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 11 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 12 | The wasp strays in , eats a little honey , warms itself , tries to sting and travels out to some winter lair . |
| 13 | The day is gone when a girl waits around till some man needs a wife . |
| 14 | ‘ As Mr. Pannick says , it cries out for some explanation from the board . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Hardly an issue of a computer magazine goes by without some mention , editorial or advertisement , of desktop publishing . |
| 18 | It sets out in some detail the means of complying with each of the eight principles that underpin the Data Protection Act . |
| 19 | — it gives out with some mess that I might normally eat but now it sort of blows away and there 's a whole muddle of emotion in my … |
| 20 | The report favours the setting of attainment targets for children at 7 , 11 and 16 ( though with some publicly expressed reservations by Sir John Kingman himself about whether English can be ‘ mastered rung by rung ’ as in climbing a ladder ( Nash , 1988 ) ) , and spells out in some detail what these should be . |
| 21 | And OPHELIA runs on in some alarm , holding up her skirts — followed by HAMLET . |
| 22 | but if he comes in with some work , you can keep on the check of the standard that they 're up |
| 23 | There 's a pause while a young constable comes in with some tea ; the man at the door gets his cup , and McDunn and I sip ours . |