Example sentences of "they [be] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 2 | ‘ They are some of the longest books in the world . |
| 3 | If a cat performs some very strange action — finds its way home over a long distance , predicts an earthquake , or senses the return of its owners when they are some distance from the house — then it is a challenge for us to try and find out which particular sensory pathway was involved . |
| 4 | In fact they are some of those I have got from the ‘ bargain ’ cartons . |
| 5 | No , they are some current stars of vegetable showbiz — new potatoes , one of summer 's treats and every cook 's delight . |
| 6 | They are some seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds less than is explicitly coming to us , either through the grant that 's coming into the S S A , the base , or the new specific grant . |
| 7 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 8 | He says ; They are some of the best times I have ever had . |
| 9 | Boro will be among the clubs stepping up their recruitment as their mid-table finish in North One proved they are some way short of promotion standard . |
| 10 | The next tier is a long way back and though there is another tier below that again with a lot of potential , they are some years away . ’ |
| 11 | They are some parents that do bringing out a book . |
| 12 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're some friends of mine . |
| 14 | They 're some of the work of Picasso 's I still like most of all . |
| 15 | To me they 're some of the most exciting things of Picasso 's , more exciting than things like Guernica . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're some cookies , Da , ’ Patsy said tremulously . |
| 17 | And er again they 're some of the side of the trade that has altered , but the basics are still there . |
| 18 | They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do . |
| 19 | Eleven million erm , but they 're some way down the track , they 're not at the top of the hierarchy |
| 20 | But yeah , but the pure orange I would n't dare to touch Cos they 're some of them canned orange drinks are |
| 21 | Well I assume they 're some sort of |
| 22 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 23 | Well they 're some of the best in the land , greyhound punters , I mean they 'll come they like their greyhound racing , real erm diehard people and erm they 'll come in any weather , I mean , the other Thursday when we really had a load of snow down , I mean no-one would come , you would n't even get off your couch for that , but erm we still had three hundred people attend which was erm even though as I say , we lost money on the erm meeting . |
| 24 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 25 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 26 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 27 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 28 | Marty is a liar : Gabrielle is a fool : Henry isa whinge : Alan had it all wrong ’ ( they were some of those he talked to ) . |
| 29 | They were better informed than he 'd imagined , but they were some way from guessing the truth . |
| 30 | Next morning the Mansion House was stormed and sacked and the mobs increased until they were some thousands strong . |