Example sentences of "and [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be our intention to update this valuation once we have prepared the Information memorandum and undertaken some further research into recent deals in comparable [ type of industry ] sectors . |
| 2 | Even so , he was a capable draughtsman and painted some impressive landscapes , portraits , and allegorical scenes , a few of which were exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery 's exhibition of twentieth-century art in 1914 . |
| 3 | He upped the price of all his unsold pictures by twenty-five per cent , borrowed a few old ones from their owners and painted some large , meretricious canvases to make a splash . |
| 4 | At that time the burrow entrances were started with lengths of pipe , covered with cordwood and faggots and spaced some 40 yards ( 36.5 metres ) apart in parkland . |
| 5 | Twenty miles from Innsbruck and perched some 4,300 feet above sea level on the Wildmoos plateau , Seefeld in the Summer could be described as a huge 19th hole . |
| 6 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 7 | I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers . |
| 8 | Now Blackburn pushing forward , sets away inside the penalty area but who 's been so convincing in the Shrewsbury goal tonight and made some important contributions , makes another one there , so alert , racing off the line to get there before could get a snip . |
| 9 | The Psychopomps had checked in and done some minimal damage two nights back . |
| 10 | And enclosed some interesting bits for her magazine . |
| 11 | He was , he was the one Vincent the erm cross-dresser had actually had some operations and become nearly Vera and he had actually banged Connie on the head with an ashtray cos Connie was selling his story and sold some personal family photos |
| 12 | . He said but he 's blown them , smoked them and bought some new pistons for it and erm , done it , he 's brilliant ! |
| 13 | Shell UK was ordered on Feb. 23 , 1990 to pay a fine of £1,000,000 for polluting the Mersey river estuary on Aug. 19 , 1989 , when 156 tonnes of crude oil had escaped through a fractured underground pipeline causing a 10-mile oil slick which killed up to 300 seabirds and affected some 2,000 others . |
| 14 | The number of employees on short-time work in eastern Germany had increased rapidly following economic and monetary union on July 1 , 1990 , and affected some 20 per cent of the work-force by the end of September 1990 . |
| 15 | Connelly deserved more reward for his efforts as he ceaselessly pushed forward and played some excellent one twos with the front runners , but it was not until the seventy ninth minute that Abingdon sealed the result ; Herbert crossed from the right wing and Aries won a challenge in the air to get a glancing header which Green turned on to the post , but the ball rebounded over the line to make it three nil . |
| 16 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 17 | He went outside , used his initiative , and found some poor chap who 'd give him a hand with it you see . |
| 18 | She felt raw — not physically , except where she had scoured her skin in the bath , but inside , in her soul , as if he had reached in and desecrated some sacred part of her . |
| 19 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 20 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 21 | Area manager , Terry Gee recognised and awarded some exceptional achievements including ; Best all round sales performer — Morag Weir , East Kilbride , followed by Susan Rogers from Birmingham and Gillian Hilton from Preston . |
| 22 | The day was a resounding success and achieved some local press coverage if not as much as hoped for and of course there is the sponsorship money which the groups has raised for Amnesty . |
| 23 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |
| 24 | GRAM WAS a good-looking wastrel rich boy , reared in Georgia , who hung out with the Stones , played with The Byrds , discovered Emmylou Harris and released some glorious records — pioneering , sad-woozy tunes that have left their influence on ‘ Let It Bleed ’ , ‘ Dixie Narco ’ , ‘ The Rockingbirds ’ and with soon-to-be-popular Def American band The Jayhawks . |