Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 2 | True , one may need some notion of " normal practice " ( in preference perhaps to appropriateness ) even to describe such phenomena , but it would be a mistake to limit pragmatics to the study of that normal practice or appropriateness . |
| 3 | Helen postponed telephoning , as one might hoard some delicacy , to savour it the longer in anticipation . |
| 4 | Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve . |
| 5 | Toward the heart of the village one might see some Pipistrelle Bats flying aerobatically around the Kirk taking insects . |
| 6 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 7 | Indeed , if one could find some way of starting the downswing , one could probably hit a satisfactory shot with a club head swung on a chain using the stiffness generated by the tension . |
| 8 | I do not pretend that this hairy example will stand up to intensive and searching cross-cultural scrutiny , since the elements in the contrasted pairs weigh slightly differently in different cultures ; indeed , as with most linked social phenomena , one could find some cases of complete reversals ( or in Lévi-Straussian terminology , ‘ transformations ’ ) in which , as the old phrase has it , the extremes meet . |
| 9 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 10 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 11 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 12 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 13 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps one can shed some light on this by being rather more precise in defining both ‘ the enterprise and economies of scale . |
| 15 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 16 | One can imagine some teachers using the same figures as evidence for using them less . |
| 17 | One can get some idea about what it means to try to maintain safety by blindfolding even one eye and noting the several changed perspectives . |
| 18 | More detail of the delicate mission would have been enlightening but one can get some idea . |