Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] some " in BNC.
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1 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
2 | Wherever you take them , though , try , if it is possible and the weather is good , to arrange for them to spend some of the time out of doors — for the housebound elderly are often short of vitamin D , which most of us get from natural sunlight ( as well as certain foods ) and this deficiency can lead to the painful condition of osteomalacia , in which there is rarefaction of the bones . |
3 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
4 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
5 | ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘ |
6 | Today children are meeting and playing with children of other faiths so it is important for them to have some understanding and knowledge of each other 's traditions . |
7 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
8 | At this point there is need for me to give some detail about the shape and nature of the primary curriculum to which all children should have access . |
9 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
10 | I 've found that it was very necessary for me to take some time to get a grasp of what is a very complex situation and it would be rather foolish to jump in too quickly . |
11 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
12 | And it took a lot for me to face some of those things . |
13 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
14 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
15 | They will make a base for me to pen some more articles for the Journal . |
16 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
17 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
18 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
19 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
20 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
21 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
22 | They are very useful for spraying large areas or inaccessible or elevated surfaces for which purpose some spray wands can be fitted with extensions of up to 2 metres . |
23 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
24 | In education the chains of accountability are long , complex and at times tangled with national and local political groups , senior management teams , governing bodies and education officials all of whom have some responsibility in the accountability process . |
25 | The term ‘ patient ’ refers to a class of things containing numerous instances or examples all of whom have some things in common , and some things that are different . |
26 | The reputation of British singers in the field of early music is maintained by about 20 principal musicians , most of whom have some Oxbridge connection . |
27 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
28 | Every ledge and shelf was crowded with ornaments of one kind or another , most of them bearing some civic inscription ranging geographically from ‘ A gift from Peebles ’ to ‘ A souvenir of Ilfracombe ’ . |
29 | Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy . |
30 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |