Example sentences of "[conj] some [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good .
2 It may be that some of the liabilities you listed have actually been overcome in the last few years .
3 He said : ‘ Members of the public are not going to be told that some of the monkeys they see climbing on their cars today could be in a lab tomorrow .
4 One day it will be like this for us in heaven when we shall see that some of the things we clung to on earth were only childish attachments .
5 He continued : ‘ Mick and I would like to think that some of the things we set out to achieve here have happened .
6 The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it .
7 Which really is the worst sort of hype , because although I think that some of the things I did in The Birthday Party were good and some of them were great , some of them were just , ‘ So what ? ’
8 Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine .
9 I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so .
10 Though other practices may interpret and implement the community care reforms in different ways , I hope that some of the lessons we have learnt will be useful .
11 We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward .
12 As I 've used a book intended for humans to find out which herbs to use ( Helping yourself with natural remedies by Terry Willard ) , it follows that some of the plants they would naturally respond to , would be useful to treat disorders in mankind .
13 But Val 's message to the High Street stores that sell computers is still important — you have a duty to your customers to provide some guidance even if this means pointing out that some of the computers you sell are very limited !
14 You can travel two hundred miles on those roads and realize that some of the cars you started out with have done the trip with you ; but you would n't recognize the drivers .
15 You see cos I know that some of the phases you find that Does it genera you see cos some some of the programs generate programs .
16 On the whole , it was the left wing that was the more creative and influential , and it was to it that some of the men we must now mention belonged .
17 The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ .
18 I said I said cos you do n't know but she 's a n she 's a nice girl , she looks alright in uniform , she 's not very bright but she 's brighter than some of the ones you 've got er give her a meet and greet job where she just has to smile and point people in the general direction of the bogs and things like that , er , I said and she 'll be alright
19 These ideas and some of the interactions he has mentioned do not , Anthony hastened to add , apply across all of C&P yet .
20 And some of the others I still have to look at .
21 The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of .
22 Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past .
23 Leaving out the copula ( to be ) , using double negative , interchanging subjective and objective pronouns ( he and him ) can all be shown to be rule governed and consistent dialect practices , not evidence for an inability to express logical relations as Greenfield and some of the writers she cites had claimed ( 1972 , p. 173 ) .
24 Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things .
25 I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together .
26 And so , le let's just conclude our our thinking and some of the things we 've been looking at ,
27 It would take a million years to tell you all the things I have done , and some of the things I would n't tell even you , ’ she said mischievously , ‘ but it 's great to be home .
28 So we 've had a look at some of the numbers now have n't we and some of the things you can do with them .
29 And some of the things you do seem to me to be inefficient , and consequently rather a waste of energy .
30 erm it 's very difficult to spot what 's going to go wrong in advance and some of the things you suspect are dodgy nobody has any trouble with , some of the things that you just did n't occur to you that would go wrong do go wrong , it 's like , mm mm , yeah mm
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