Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 2 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 3 | ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money . |
| 4 | I 'd half-expected the door to be on a chain or to be asked to push some ID through the letter-box before she opened up . |
| 5 | In Southern Rhodesia so many Whites were withdrawn for war service , particularly in the Second World War , that Africans and mixed-race ‘ coloureds ’ had to be trained to do some of their jobs . |
| 6 | Wilko 's error here was to not spot the need earlier for a new full back to be bought to get some pre-season practice in with Strach/Rocky or Wallace . |
| 7 | But , even if she did find their name and address , since the alternator needed seemed to be going to take some time to track down , there seemed little point in trying to contact them that day . |
| 8 | They were to be allowed to use some of the gentry 's farmland , but not necessarily in perpetuity and only in return for labour services or cash . |
| 9 | It preferred to be allowed to say some prayers for the Queen , the prime minister , and everyone else concerned with the choice , before they reached their conclusion . |
| 10 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 11 | And that is why , as Mr said , I think they ought to be allowed to produce some sort of advertising pamphlet , and get their act together , because if they 're going to go and compete out there they 've got to be prepared for it , and we 've got to allow them to give a decent presentation , at least have a decent glossy brochure to push round , so at least they can say what they do , because they will never compete when they are privatised unless they get it . |