Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sign has meaning , not in virtue of something accompanying it , ‘ thinking ’ , but in virtue of the part it plays in some ‘ form of life ’ . |
| 2 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 3 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 4 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 5 | Unlikely though it may sound it kicks with some ferocity . |
| 6 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 7 | It points to some of the ethical roots of social action and the citizens ' responsibilities towards a just society . |
| 8 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 9 | It goes through some wonderful scenery and St-Jean itself is quite picturesque , plenty of things to paint … not exactly designed by Nature I know , but … ’ |
| 10 | It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in . |
| 11 | So the Trust , as a voluntary , charitable organisation receiving no direct government subsidies , is very dependent on the help it receives from some 20,000 volunteers annually , working on a great variety of projects . |
| 12 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 13 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 14 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 15 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 16 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 17 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 18 | You need an iron stomach as it tastes like some awful medicine . |
| 19 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 20 | But part of it arose from some of the exaggerated enthusiasms of their advocates . |
| 21 | It arose from some very good scientific research into smells that animals like and there 's no animal with a better sense of smell than a dog . |
| 22 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
| 23 | It lays down standards for the media programme within the school , in terms of the provision of skilled personnel and plentiful materials in appropriate surrounds ; it specifies in some detail the media programme for the " school district " ( the American equivalent of the local education authority ) in similar terms of personnel , materials and distribution . |
| 24 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 25 | However , the fundamental theorem says that any efficient BFS is optimal in LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) for some w 1 , … , w p > 0 and so it corresponds to some efficient tableau ( Section 3.6 ) . |
| 26 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 27 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 28 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 29 | A flat , oblong mound fifteen feet high , about thirty feet wide and forty feet long , it stands like some horrible pimple outside Paris on the road to Saint Denis . |
| 30 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |