Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist ! |
| 2 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 3 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |
| 4 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 5 | The first rule governs some processes that might not involve an overall change of spin , but it is conveniently considered with the spin rule . |
| 6 | At this stage nearly a month had elapsed since the watercolour , so it was important to return to the first study to establish some kind of modus operandi for the oil . |
| 7 | ‘ My first wife died some years ago , as you may know . |
| 8 | The discs are to be issued in alphabetical order of composer : the first tranche includes some Bartok , the nine Beethoven symphonies , the Brahms symphonies and works by Bernstein himself . |
| 9 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |
| 10 | The first argument has some merit for it is akin to the argument of non-Marxists that education should be related to the needs of the economy . |
| 11 | We wanted this first tour to give some feeling to the kids . ’ |
| 12 | It can happen , though , that the first stage mis-classifies some instance . |
| 13 | The next parcel contained some Chiliprufe underwear from May Thorne , who Willie had never even met . |
| 14 | They appeared to have lost the art for a while ; last night went some way towards suggesting they had got it back . |
| 15 | MR NORMAN Tebbit 's decision to raise the stakes in the Conservatives ' Hong Kong immigration row with a brutal attack on the Cabinet 's policy last night convinced some MPs that he is preparing a bid for the party leadership when Mrs Thatcher retires . |
| 16 | No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come |
| 17 | Leslie 's next letter offered some explanation of his position : |
| 18 | Heseltine has taken to private chats with the backbench malcontents in a last effort to smooth some sort of passage for his proposals , but the word is that there remain a frustrating number of irreconcilables around . |
| 19 | With troubled giants IBM and Compaq leading the way , the world 's computer makers decided late last year to inject some competitiveness into the European market , hastened by the growth of direct-mail computer sales . |
| 20 | But we spent the winter of 1888 with another , and the next year had some experience in pantomime . |
| 21 | In order to investigate the operation of such constraints , we will first look at some theoretical models which cast light on the various problems involved in the government-management " game " , before turning to the next section to consider some features of the control structure in the UK , so as to see some practical illustrations of the points . |
| 22 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 23 | He suspects he is drowning them , but the third plant died some months ago and he still feels bad about it . |