Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 4 | Just walk down the road here to all them shops and just knock one of them off , bring the stuff back , stash it till the morning and then go and sell it to buy some gear … |
| 5 | And make her buy some new clothes , for heaven 's sake ! |
| 6 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 7 | He has sported the distinctive moustache for many years and admitted it took some ‘ bare-faced cheek ’ to get rid of it . |
| 8 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 9 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 10 | Schumpeter 's theory of democracy , which was discussed in Chapter 1 , shows the influence of elite theories , and has itself influenced some later political views . |
| 11 | Hardy Hall put you in a rather higher position and invited you to consider some of the long-term implications of the proposed change as well as the immediate problems . |
| 12 | She can put a little note in there and say she wants some a taties and some , some bread and then it 's delivered . |
| 13 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 14 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 15 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 16 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 17 | ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’ |
| 18 | The uncles would hide rueful grins , because they knew better than most what sort of cooks the aunts were , and there would follow the inevitable patch of family " atmosphere " before Addy would relent and appoint them to do some menial task like laying the table . |
| 19 | And to help me provide some answers , I have with me Dick Grimsdale , who is Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the university ; Joe Turner , who is a Developmental Psychologist ; and Peter Dauber , who is a Physicist and colleague of mine . |
| 20 | Wilson appointed Dick Crossman Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science , and encouraged him to spearhead some 40 conferences , up and down the country , to encourage an exchange of ideas . |
| 21 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |
| 22 | Now , let's look at some examples and get you to name some of them as well . |
| 23 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 24 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 25 | Do n't just sit there and worry alone — if you 've got a problem and feel you need some help , write to Sue Frost |
| 26 | Do n't just sit there and worry on your own — if you 've got a problem and feel you need some help , write to Sue Frost |
| 27 | ROSS was impressed too with England 's performances in recent months and felt they scored some superb tries . |
| 28 | In all these ways they were more akin to urban dwellers , and felt they had some independent choices to make in order to improve their lives . |
| 29 | I followed him and saw him join some of his mates who were waiting on the corner . |
| 30 | When I read it , I was at first very put off , but I 'm glad I persevered , as in the end I was quite charmed , and thought it contained some very shrewd observations , too . |