Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless they do represent different ways in which psychotic vulnerability can manifest itself and reference to them helps to provide some clues as to which of its aspects might mediate any association that exists with creativity . |
| 4 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 5 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 6 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 7 | They asked to see some . |
| 8 | Although they intend taking some of the animals with them , the rest will probably remain with the estate . |
| 9 | In their protest they sought to restore some political coals to Newcastle : the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 committed the lay and ecclesiastical nobles of Scotland to support Robert Bruce , who stood against proud Edward 's army , and sent him homeward to think again . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 11 | They can they can if they want to take some wool away they can . |
| 12 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 13 | ‘ Idle bloody sods — they want to get some work to do . |
| 14 | Erm like to decorate a house well no let's say in in a factory , there 's erm they 've a rush order , they want to get some stuff out and they 're going to need another hundred and twenty man hours . |
| 15 | ‘ They appear to know some of the same people . ’ |
| 16 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 17 | They made their first mistake when they tried to sell some ‘ stolen ’ emeralds to a Hatton Garden dealer . |
| 18 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 19 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 20 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 21 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 22 | They 'd done some lines at the office . |
| 23 | They 'd followed some light in the sky . |
| 24 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 25 | Swindon Crown Court heard they 'd consumed some 17 pints of beer . |
| 26 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 27 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 28 | Talbot said : ‘ You would n't be sitting here unless they 'd released some information . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 30 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |