Example sentences of "some [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present |
2 | And other players were using the model at the same time or earlier , some as a bass ( eg. Bob Bogle of The Ventures ) and some as a lead instrument , such as Hank Marvin , Jet 's old colleague in The Shadows . |
3 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
4 | He was born in Hambleden , some of a farm labourer . |
5 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
6 | In some of the Derry shirt factories women had to quit their jobs when their husbands became unemployed due to low/inadequate wages . |
7 | Some of the communication work is done for you . |
8 | Some of the tree skiing was particularly exciting : rather breakable crust . |
9 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
10 | She made a little oatmeal porridge for Enoch , and for the three adults she cooked bacon and potatoes , in the iron pan they had brought from home , and used some of the water ration to make tea . |
11 | To reduce the magnification soak up some of the water drop by gently touching a piece of paper tissue or blotting paper against it for an instant . |
12 | Some of the Lombard banking houses maintained a presence in several of Europe 's main trading centres , e.g. London , Paris and Amsterdam . |
13 | The celebrated Wasp Pendant ( Figure 28 ) came from a rich burial at Mallia , and it is generally believed that at least some of the Aigina Treasure — found at Aigina , but of unknown provenance — came from Mallia too . |
14 | Monsieur Pallon was a portly man with a luxuriant moustache and twinkling eyes , and he was clearly delighted at the prospect of having some of the floor space in his depot returned to him . |
15 | Despite the response to some of the Maud Committee proposals , many local authorities were already re-examining their management structures . |
16 | And we 've got out the back as well cos we did away with some of the vegetable garden because I mean |
17 | Figure 16–3 implies that cutting income tax rates may eliminate some of the deadweight burden of distortionary taxation , but governments should probably expect their tax revenue to decline if such policies are put into effect . |
18 | The brewers rightly became enraged one disastrous day when Priestley , trying to determine the solubility of carbon dioxide in ether , let some of the solvent escape into the fermenting vat , ruining the whole brew . |
19 | Some of the Sharlott family would like the Reverend Craig removed . |
20 | Submissions are being made by some of the Crucible team to continue making the programme using Central 's facilities . |
21 | When Jason gives some of the money back , which he should n't have , you say it is n't enough . |
22 | After a few struggles I managed to disarm him and get some of the money back . |
23 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
24 | To answer some of these questions , let's first look at some of the things assertiveness is n't . |
25 | Since it is couched in similar terms to its predecessor in its reference to ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , ’ at least some of the case law on the previous section is still pertinent.a But in several respects , it is crucially different from that familiar standby of public order law . |
26 | The architecture is still in a fair condition and some of the marble facing remains . |
27 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
28 | This upstairs room still holds some of the tailors equipment . |
29 | One reason , evident in Europe and also important in the United States , is that for some of the underclass life in the cities , although insecure , ill-rewarded and otherwise primitive , still remains , if tenuously , better than that from which they escaped . |
30 | Besides her other duties she took over some of the maths teaching . |