Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 2 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 3 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 4 | At one point a uniform sergeant listening to me discuss some tactic , gloomily pointed out that my style was not theirs ; but then , he rationalized , ‘ how could it be , you 're from the north side of the river ’ . |
| 5 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 6 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 7 | I apologise if this description of Boy sounds to you like some fantasy and not a real person , a real young man ; and worse still , if this looks like a photograph from that kind of magazine which you would n't even buy , let alone be seen reading in public , on public transport for instance . |
| 8 | But it is up to you to make some decisions , however small , and to put them into action . |
| 9 | They regularly employed Philip Leapor as a gardener , and the letters sent to him give some insight into his business . |
| 10 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 11 | Just talk to her get some conversation so these are my flats . |
| 12 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 13 | It 's very heartening that the A T C are actually looking to us to do some work with them , and that they actually think that Oxford is moving forward in the right direction , and that they actually want to come and share some of our knowledge . |