Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 9 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
| 10 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 11 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 12 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 13 | Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | None of none of none of those have phone numbers but all of them have some sort of address . |
| 16 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 17 | ‘ The rest of you get some sleep ! |
| 18 | ‘ Surely it is n't asking too much of you to put some clothes on , Your Highness . ’ |
| 19 | Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do . |
| 20 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 21 | I have just heard that an aunt of mine died some years ago . |
| 22 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |
| 23 | I 've not enjoyed a dip in the briny since a little moonlighting I did , some time in the 1500s , when I helped a Greek pal of mine sing some mariners to their doom . |
| 24 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 25 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 26 | In other words , most of us have some element of the " other " sex in our make-up and most of us have some degree of homosexual feeling , whether we like it or not . |
| 27 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 28 | All of us have some Candida yeasts in our gut . |
| 29 | In other words , most of us have some element of the " other " sex in our make-up and most of us have some degree of homosexual feeling , whether we like it or not . |
| 30 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |