Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early water-colours show him already using some of the techniques of miniature painting , and the scale and meticulous detail of all his work suggest that he was truly a miniaturist at heart . |
| 2 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 3 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 4 | Now he felt his brain slowly expanding , the noise and sunshine seemed to have entered his skull , and he badly wanted some food to settle the turbid churning of his feelings . |
| 5 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 6 | On learning that Rose 's mother had acted with Edmund Kean , his resistance to her dissolves as he creakily re-enacts some of Kean 's great moments . |
| 7 | But in prison he perhaps recaptured some of his lost knighthood in telling the heroic stories of the Round Table . |
| 8 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 9 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway he just grabbed some papers — and he was off again . ’ |
| 11 | He just draws some rays , converging at appropriate foci for the lenses and reflected from the mirrors with equal angles of incidence and reflection . |
| 12 | Up until June 30 next year , Teddy is attempting to go flying in as many different aircraft as possible , and he already has some impressive types in his logbook . |
| 13 | He was very interested in discovering whether the tattoo would grow as he grew and he thought he already detected some enlargement . |
| 14 | What about Toby if we get some , he desperately needs some because he |
| 15 | On the other hand , it was obvious from the shadows like sooty thumbprints beneath his eyes and the tension around his mouth that he desperately needed some sleep . |
| 16 | He still made some shows of aggression , but more as a dangerous game than with wicked intent . |
| 17 | In fact , he still had some to offer for sale in Ambleside in 1819 . |
| 18 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 19 | he still had some left . |
| 20 | When he returned to his room Coleridge was mortified to discover that ‘ though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision , yet , with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images , all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 22 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 23 | The story is resumed where Little Turtle returns to the tortoise , telling him that he still has some angry feelings , even though he has used the turtle response . |
| 24 | Fairly good evidence has since appeared to show that Burt faked his results in order to bolster his case , although he still has some apologists . |
| 25 | He still has some details to arrange . |
| 26 | But he still has some left . |
| 27 | He still has some way to go to earn a place in the golfing record books . |
| 28 | His doctors were amazed at the speed of his progress , but he still found some movements awkward on occasion . |
| 29 | ( groan , groan — you all know what i want ; - ) ; - ) — with Frank playing 11 games from start my bet is that his goal tally would have exceeded 2 — of course he still misses some qualities — but he knows how to make a goal … as the commentaries said it : ‘ He is under-21 and is still learning the game ’ ) |
| 30 | Was he still playing some kind of macabre joke ? |