Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] some [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He finished the service by announcing tersely that some of the large number of people jailed during the night had been released .
2 The aims which I put up there , I wo n't go through each one , I think are hopefully fairly self explanatory , the , some of those are going well and some of them still need a hard push , a hard push from us and a hard push from the clubs and the teaching establishments .
3 If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations .
4 And when we were getting people from outside coming there and some of them quite militant they were going to sit and lay across the road .
5 Now some of you were nodding there and some of you were smiling , it might be that you actually would quite like to say you know that I believe it 's wrong for people to be born disabled , handicapped .
6 I been working here before some of 'em were born !
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