Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 2 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 3 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 4 | I tried in one shop to buy some strings . |
| 5 | All modules are written in Pascal apart from one module containing some of the low-level camera control and some other manipulations . |
| 6 | I went down to the caravan one day to take some apples , and was startled to see a continuous ripple of ice on the inside of the caravan wall just by my friend 's plump , inviting-looking pillow . |
| 7 | They had one day captured some andarte — resistance fighters — from the mainland and ordered him to execute them . |
| 8 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 9 | It was a mixed class and the students … regular in attendance and conscientious about the work for the class … . although the amount varied , one student produced some written work every week , two or three others did eight or nine papers … enough was produced for me to know that a real interest was being taken in the class . |
| 10 | One student had some ebony so it seemed natural to try a set of bagpipes . |
| 11 | Nobody ventured out into the weather , except one woman watering some sweet peas on her balcony . |
| 12 | Thus , it was not surprising to find one headteacher expressing some annoyance that the schools were selected by procedures which were not open to public scrutiny and claiming that a competition was only fair if all potential entrants knew in advance that the " race " was to take place and the rules under which it would be run . |
| 13 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 14 | They were singing , and one couple executed some jive steps on the pavement . |
| 15 | • After the actions of one manufacturer to offer some comfort to tired hacks at Birmingham two weeks ago ( Mitsubishi 's ‘ Survival Kit ’ included ‘ electronically tested articles ’ ) the Paris show organisers offered some after-shave as part of the press kit . |
| 16 | One way to detect some impurities is to put the tab on your tongue and see if it fizzes ( it should n't ) . |
| 17 | ‘ One way to get some good blood in the family , ’ Yanto shouted back with a grin , and gave them the well-known two fingered salute . |
| 18 | As one minister said some days ago : ‘ The Prime Minister 's loyalty is to be admired but there must be limits . |
| 19 | While it is true that self-evaluation was officially a requirement of participating schools , and that at least one school undertook some evaluation which it broadened to a development of its original project proposal into a statement of library policy for the school as a whole , specific requirements for precise and quantitative monitoring were absent . |
| 20 | One set concerned some ants going into a kitchen where there was jelly on the table . |
| 21 | The site of the works which at one time covered some 600 acres is now being re-developed by Tarmac ( Swindon ) Ltd. , but part of the works including No. 19 Shop and the adjoining No. 20 Shop will be preserved . |
| 22 | In practice , however , such is the scope for self-interest to stand in the way of the smooth running of the firm that the right of any one partner to veto some proper alteration should be excluded . |