Example sentences of "some [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 2 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 3 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 4 | ‘ Women have to have some secrets you know , ’ said Barbara Cartland , whose date of birth has been listed in Who 's Who only since her 90th birthday . |
| 5 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 6 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 7 | Twenty four but I 've paid him he 's had his other twenty odd p so ha ha he 's had that he 's reckons it was ten twenty odd p plus some change we had . |
| 8 | This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock . |
| 9 | ‘ Some vegetables I 'm very fond of — peas I 'm relatively neutral about . ’ |
| 10 | Not without some difficulty I persuaded her to join us … |
| 11 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 12 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 13 | Soaking wet and with some difficulty I managed to salvage the dory , with one brand new Mercury outboard from underwater and , backed up by my crew , asked the skipper what the blazes he thought he was up to . |
| 14 | With some difficulty I read : |
| 15 | With some difficulty she slid open the side door and bundled herself in and spread herself across one of the triple seats . |
| 16 | With some difficulty she swallowed down further argument , but was honest as she stated simply , ‘ It was my fault , not his . |
| 17 | With some difficulty he got the car to start and drove slowly along the middle of the road . |
| 18 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 19 | With some pros you could have got the sack on the spot . |
| 20 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 21 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
| 22 | For some minutes it smoked its pipe and did not speak , but at last it took the pipe out of its mouth , and said , ‘ So you 've changed , have you ? |
| 23 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 24 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 25 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 26 | Although anal intercourse may play some part it does not seem to be a necessary activity for the development of anal cancer . |
| 27 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 28 | I speak it , and appear to understand it , and give and take orders in it , but on some level it just is n't sinking in . |
| 29 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 30 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |