Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [that] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued : ‘ Mick and I would like to think that some of the things we set out to achieve here have happened . |
| 2 | I would hate to think that some children at home now are going to try and make their pet cat jump through a hoop of fire . |
| 3 | You must try to remember that some people are normal . |
| 4 | In your position , I would rethink my substrate , as perpetual gill irritation can hardly be good for the fish — though you will have to accept that some permanent damage may already have occurred . |
| 5 | Naturalists shower us with intriguing accounts , both anecdotal and experimental , and their range tends to put in perspective the sense , if any , in which we might wish to claim that some were consciously purposive and others not . |
| 6 | We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another |
| 7 | If theme is whatever occurs in initial position we would have to acknowledge that some languages prefer to thematize participants ( expressed as subjects in SVO and SOV languages ) on a regular basis while other languages prefer to thematize processes ( expressed as verbs in VSO languages ) . |
| 8 | These criteria do not imply that other longer term influences are not at work and we would have to accept that some of these influences are historical , in that they are inherent to probable ‘ weak ’ parenting skills from John 's earliest life . |