Example sentences of "some of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they include that in the scheme , some of them on the rate , I wo n't bother with that anyway it 's not our problem |
| 2 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 3 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 4 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 5 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 6 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 7 | Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away . |
| 8 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 9 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 10 | Can you get some of them into the hall ? |
| 11 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 12 | The teams of paddlers ( some of them from the SBS ) and the navigators therefore spent two weeks making periscope reconnaissances , drawing the profiles of the hinterland to target beaches . |
| 13 | Aye , Master Joe , you 'd suppose not if you saw some of them from the towns . |
| 14 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 15 | As we set off we catch some of them in the beams of our head torches , along with the bats which are madly pursuing them . |
| 16 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 17 | Blisters rose immediately , some of them in the shape of the ring . |
| 18 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |
| 19 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |
| 20 | Initially no effort was made to evict CPL officials and staff from the occupied buildings , but on April 20 a communist party printing works under military guard since March 30 was stormed by troops who evicted the staff , beating up some of them in the process . |
| 21 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 22 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 23 | Well I do n't , I 'm bread and I might some of it on the top . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , I just heard some of it on the radio . |
| 25 | Interestingly , as we went to press , Intel stock had spiked 15 points in three days , some of it on the strength of a strong buy recommendation from Merrill Lynch , whose analysis underscored the strong demand for Pentiums . |
| 26 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |
| 27 | There was still some of the food in the bag , and I dropped some of it onto the ground . |
| 28 | and I put some of it in the freezer |
| 29 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 30 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |