Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 2 | I am standing on some of the oldest rock in the world , standing on a tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean , the island where , it is said , in 563 AD St Columba landed with 12 followers bringing Christianity from Ireland to the heathen Picts . |
| 3 | Here I am playing with some of the world 's top golfers and I realise this is the stage I should be performing on . ’ |
| 4 | I am chilled by some of the things Sinead is coming out with nowadays . |
| 5 | Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results ! |
| 6 | It can be I know , but I mean erm , I 'm thinking of some of my electorate , and I have n't actually had the opportunity to ask them . |
| 7 | And in preparation for my retirement , I 'm discarding with some of my duties . |
| 8 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 9 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 10 | Erm I was looking through some of the books for some of the startling figures and things that happen in world trade . |
| 11 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 12 | AT RONNIE SCOTT 's Club last night I was chatting to some of the members , insofar as one could hear one 's self talk above the noise of the musicians , when the subject of London transport came up . |
| 13 | ‘ We have battled well in recent games but I was heartened by some of our football in the midweek win over Grimsby Town . |
| 14 | Along the way I was engaged in some of the startling ‘ business as usual ’ banking practices that have begun to plague the world financial system . |
| 15 | ‘ I was approached by some of the victims of that situation ( the Northern Ireland conflict ) to help them in whatever way I could . |
| 16 | ‘ I was talking about some of the funny things that happen there and Mum said it was the sort of place he should be going to . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 18 | Unless you 're going into some of the tenor erm and alto |
| 19 | Well , wait a minute , I think maybe you do need a money adviser because I know what you 're doing with some of your money , you 're subsidising your staff meals through the County Council canteen . |
| 20 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 21 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 22 | She was attacked by some of the more irreconcilable young Quakers for betraying the spirit of absolutism by helping the authorities in the administration of the Military Service Act and turning the NCF into ‘ a society for the prevention of cruelty to conscientious objectors . ’ |
| 23 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 24 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 25 | The development of documentation guidelines is a high priority and we are working with some of the major depositors of data to produce them . |
| 26 | Yet we are talking about some of the greatest passages in English literature as well as one of the great ways of teaching in the Church . |
| 27 | This is the second in our new series of twelve programmes on opportunities in education , in which we 're looking at some of the ideas in action in schools today . |
| 28 | And so we were complimented by some of our colleagues on the shop floor you know , that , what a difference is on the place . |
| 29 | Because obviously it 's , they are going to some of the paving , we do n't wanting it running up a small onto the next lot . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman is incorrect in saying that they are shared by all political parties in Germany , although they are shared by some of them , especially the socialist parties . |