Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] some of " in BNC.

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1 I think if you talk to drug users themselves , we 've already heard about some of them talking about coming off drugs
2 I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on
3 Another potential future LAN would be for Public Services and Publications , in view of the close functional links which have developed between some of their activities , and the need to minimise cost increases by sharing expensive hardware .
4 And that included the experience of caddying for some of the greats when they came to St Andrews , such as Henry Cotton and Flory Van Donck .
5 It was not until 1950 ( three years after a similar set had been commissioned in America ) that the BEA decided to go for some of these gains from larger scale by ordering an advanced 100MW set for 1955 .
6 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 .
7 " He 's arranged for some of his men to come along — it 's very heavy , you know — and he wondered whether you want it moved upstairs or downstairs . "
8 ‘ We were never as despondent as many others , knowing that the benefits of the squad system would compensate for some of the retirals of senior players , ’ he added .
9 What the figures do n't show is the effect of the overall increase in labour turnover on standards : it ca n't have been good , and this helps account for some of the loss of business .
10 The differences in design account for some of the differences in safeguards .
11 Critics of Balling 's work have suggested that , rather than showing that deserts account for some of the world temperature rise , the results may simply be demonstrating the fact that different types of land — notably desert — respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect .
12 It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course .
13 He was quite happy for Willi to sit through some of Therese 's practice sessions , for Willi 's overwhelming admiration for Therese 's voice — and Willi , in spite of his romantic overview , did understand about voice — was doing wonders for Therese 's confidence .
14 We turned north along the Shyok gorge and passed through some of the most incredible scenery that any of us had witnessed .
15 I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy .
16 Er you might think about some of these parents who have children murdered in the how much do you think revenge comes into it ?
17 She knew him well enough now to see through some of the camouflage — perhaps all of it .
18 The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods .
19 He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing .
20 Figure 3.4 shows the massive concentration of 25–44-year-olds to the north and west of London , in precisely those counties which have recently had substantial population increases and which are regarded as some of the most prosperous places in the country ( Champion et al .
21 For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain .
22 Although that is the end of the story of the Tennants of Laigh Corton and Ayrshire , readers may be interested to know about some of ‘ Wabster Charlie 's ’ descendants .
23 Although the now frequently-used concept of ‘ the right to resistance ’ was referred to in the older religion-based natural law theories , it is mainly the more recent , secularised version of natural law with its emphasis on human rights that seems to provide a theoretical underpinning for some of the assertions about the illegality of nuclear war and the justifiability of nuclear protest .
24 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
25 She writes about some of the things that happened .
26 Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions .
27 The term issue is normally used when it is possible to show beyond any reasonable doubt that the variations occurred after some of the edition had already been published , so that first and second issues ( and even more ) are recognisable .
28 Border was in good humour at Hove and agreed that he would prefer to attract some better headlines than the ones he has earned after some of his outbursts in the early part of this Ashes tour .
29 Jones had tried to cover his tracks by disposing of some of the apparatus on a rubbish tip .
30 It was a remarkable achievement for a company created just over a year earlier and which had had to pitch against some of the world 's largest train-builders , including GEC Alsthom , Siemens , and BREL , the dominant British manufacturer .
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