Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun] they " in BNC.
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1 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
2 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
3 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
4 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
5 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
6 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
7 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
8 | Even as Rachel flitted before us down passageways and galleries , I could feel other presences , as if ghosts hiding in the shadows watched her pass then trailed behind us , looking for some weakness they could exploit . |
9 | For some children they are more socially deprived , and yet they may be getting considerable ‘ education ’ in inverted commas within their home environment . |
10 | For some children they are more socially deprived , and yet they may be getting considerable ‘ education ’ in inverted commas within their home environment . |
11 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
12 | For some purposes they might be , for others ( particularly in their general lack of women students ) they could be quite misleading . |
13 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
14 | Here , we move to a further degree of abstraction , since things are no longer of interest for some essence they may possess but for their exchangeable aspects . |
15 | For some cells they had the strong impression that the response increased the more the object resembled a monkey 's hand , while in others the trigger feature appeared to be a monkey 's face or head . |
16 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
17 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
18 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
19 | True , there was a mixed Italian and German team climbing not far away , heading for the Traverse of the Gods ; he could see them but for some reason they could n't see him . |
20 | And because the Bar was still crowded for some reason they were literally pushed together . |
21 | For some reason they ignore these hygienic delights and go padding off to some stagnant puddle to lap up the filthy water there . |
22 | Those things should n't 've been there , for some reason they 'd infuriated him . |
23 | For some reason they 're mounted on angled surrounds , which I quite like the look of , but the coils are screened by black plastic covers which look pretty cheap and make a nasty scratching noise if you hit them with a pick . |
24 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
25 | For some reason they had not much liked the look of this pub , called the Fir Tree , and though he had slowed a bit as they came to it , they had not stopped . |
26 | He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them . |
27 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
28 | He could n't provide the money , but for some reason they accepted his guarantee . |
29 | He had entered into negotiations with the commissioners of His Majesty 's Victualling Office for the erection of an engine to drive a corn mill , and manufacture of the parts was well advanced , when for some reason they turned to John Smeaton [ q.v. ] for an opinion , and he recommended a pumping engine and water-wheel . |
30 | I went through his pockets — for some reason they were full of dirty pictures . |