Example sentences of "[prep] they [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 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And after this first success at breeding a Freckled duck outside Australia , they 're bringing in 10 adult ducks in the hope of them breeding some more . |
| 13 | None of none of none of those have phone numbers but all of them have some sort of address . |
| 14 | But most of them have some vague understanding that past judicial decisions must be respected in the future , and anyone 's practical experience with litigation will confirm this sense , for the opinions of judges are stuffed with references to earlier decisions of other judges . |
| 15 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 16 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 17 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 18 | The linguistic and other significatory structures of psychological discourse are rare objects of psychological investigation , so simply focusing on them has some critical impact . |