Example sentences of "that they [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He took particular care of young players , seeing that they were well-fed and well-lodged and that they sent some money home to their parents each week .
2 In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others .
3 If we return , for example , to the case of student protesters , we have already noted that they show some signs of a need for parental surrogates , and certainly they are seldom complete anarchists .
4 She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’
5 Most teacher-training programmes include provision for trainees to sit in with other teachers so that they get some experience of the environment they will work in .
6 In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ .
7 It is generally elicited only by stimuli that are both infrequent ( or improbable ) and significant in the sense that they require some kind of response by the subject .
8 Is that the one that they had some problems with the er rugby club ?
9 Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship .
10 The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available .
11 They stared at each other in silence for a moment , surprised to find that they shared some fragment of a common cause : the unsolved mysteries that troubled them both , though twenty years and half a world apart , were somehow one and the same .
12 It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken .
13 Nevertheless , studies about job losses are useful to the extent that they give some flavour of the rate of change associated with the new technology , and they are helpful for any social and economic planning to cope with these changes .
14 These are worthy of repetition to the extent that they give some indication of the prevailing mood of practitioners .
15 It is equally important , however , that children understand mathematical concepts and processes and that they see some purpose in learning the subject .
16 They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover .
17 AS DOGS , CATS , HORSES , AND PROBABLY ALL THE HIGHER ANIMALS , EVEN BIRDS , HAVE VIVID DREAMS , AND THIS IS SHEWN BY THEIR MOVEMENTS AND THE SOUNDS UTTERED , ’ WE MUST ADMIT THAT THEY POSSESS SOME POWER OF IMAGINATION .
18 But the evidence suggests that they have some way to go still .
19 Some people think they 're connected with religious ceremonies , others that they have some kind of astronomical significance .
20 The research of writers , such as Likert , who support the principle of management by participation suggests that employees may be more productive when they consider that they have some influence over planning decisions which affect their work ; and
21 involve someone in solving a problem so that they have some ownership for the solution .
22 Most people feel that they have some understanding of the focus of disciplines like History or Physics , but are less familiar with Sociology .
23 As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others .
24 The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers .
25 Embedded within discussions of human rights is the intention that we should not so organise our social institutions that they promote some people and inhibit others .
26 There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation .
27 It originates as a MEWING sound in tiny kittens , letting their mother know that they need some kind of help or that they are in some sort of trouble .
28 Then they can actually go to the D S S office and say that they need some money urgently and D S S may make a payment .
29 So , the idea that they need some training to do it safely just does n't occur to them .
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