Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plants had been sown with cotton into a large book which , he was told , probably somewhat testily by Miller , William Sherard had borrowed and from which he had extracted some desirable specimens to incorporate them into his herbarium , bequeathed to Oxford University . |
| 2 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 3 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 4 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 5 | He made a last effort to persuade the Sunderland Society to adopt the rules of a national union which he had spent some twelve months in preparing . |
| 6 | The rain became a murmur , comforting , like the plainsong chant of the choir at the far end of a cathedral in the city in which he had spent some of his childhood . |
| 7 | His declared strategy is to ‘ compartmentalise ’ the Lyceum 's programme , with a summer season of farce being followed by the Edinburgh Festival and then a season of classics , after which he hopes to produce some new plays . |
| 8 | Affirming that " practically every leader agrees that negotiation is the key to reconciliation , peace and a new and just dispensation " , and in support of the government 's " declared intention to normalise the political process … without jeopardizing the maintenance of good order " , de Klerk announced changes which he said removed some of the most important obstacles to negotiation , namely ( i ) the lifting of the ban on the ANC , the PAC , the SACP and a number of subsidiary organizations ; ( ii ) the release of those imprisoned for membership of one of these banned organizations ( but not members imprisoned for politically motivated crimes involving violence ) ; ( iii ) the abolition of the media emergency regulations and of the education emergency regulations , although restrictions would remain on " visual material pertaining to scenes of unrest " ; ( iv ) the removal of restrictions imposed on 33 organizations under the state of emergency , including the National Education Crisis Committee , the United Democratic Front ( UDF ) , the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and an extreme right-wing group , Die Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging van Suid-Afrika ; ( v ) the lifting of personal restrictions imposed on 374 people already released from detention ; and ( vi ) a six-month limit on detention without charge under the emergency regulations , with detainees henceforth being entitled to legal representation and their own choice of medical attention . |
| 9 | He was standing with three friends and telling a tale in which he 'd conned some adversary into covering a dubious investment . |
| 10 | He does not usually do so unless he or a section of the public which he represents has some special interest to protect , in enforcing that particular law , that is not shared by the public at large . |
| 11 | and then whatever he 's got some corned in another one . |