Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In addition to the learners , there is at least one resource person who knows both the target language and the native language , and who has some experience in a non-directive style of counselling as opposed to the more traditional role played by the teacher using the audio-lingual method . |
2 | And she has some justice on her side . |
3 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
4 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
5 | He intercedes on behalf of the people , and he wins some pardon from God . |
6 | He would like to see , for example , more acknowledgement that hospitals themselves have a strong impact on people , and he thinks some study should be devoted to this . |
7 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
8 | and he wants some long-line , well I did have some , but I do n't know if I 've still got them |
9 | He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal . |
10 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
11 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
12 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
13 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
14 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
15 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
16 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
17 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
18 | The , the video does actually illustrate the way in which some of these services have been developed , and it includes some comments from people who are actually receiving services . |
19 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |