Example sentences of "some of [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I said I wished mine to be destroyed , but asked if I might keep some of hers of a literary interest .
2 In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 .
3 Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks .
4 Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period .
5 The equipment in all the workshops was rudimentary , but items of reasonable quality were produced and sold , some of them on a stall outside the front gate of the prison .
6 Do they include that in the scheme , some of them on the rate , I wo n't bother with that anyway it 's not our problem
7 Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ?
8 Are they all lying straight or are some of them at an angle ?
9 These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum .
10 The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’
11 I mean some of them at the going in at dinner time and have a couple , three pints it do n't hit them does it ?
12 Hockney was the odd man out in Kasmin 's stable of abstract artists , and resented by some of them as a result .
13 ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden .
14 You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist .
15 Observations have been made , some of them with an arrangement unlikely to produce separation , of transition occurring at around 3000 in a manner similar to that described above for higher Reynolds numbers — turbulent spots originating close to the wall and then spreading to give turbulent slugs .
16 Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess .
17 Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer .
18 I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely .
19 Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class .
20 That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period .
21 Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories .
22 Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away .
23 But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone .
24 He started to sort his papers into a neat pile , putting some of them into a briefcase .
25 They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’
26 Can you get some of them into the hall ?
27 If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] .
28 There were cut locks of hair , too : tight , black curls , some of them from a beard .
29 The teams of paddlers ( some of them from the SBS ) and the navigators therefore spent two weeks making periscope reconnaissances , drawing the profiles of the hinterland to target beaches .
30 Aye , Master Joe , you 'd suppose not if you saw some of them from the towns .
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