Example sentences of "some of [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away . |
| 12 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 13 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 14 | Can you get some of them into the hall ? |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Aye , Master Joe , you 'd suppose not if you saw some of them from the towns . |
| 18 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 19 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 20 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |
| 21 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 22 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 23 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 24 | As we set off we catch some of them in the beams of our head torches , along with the bats which are madly pursuing them . |
| 25 | Blisters rose immediately , some of them in the shape of the ring . |
| 26 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 27 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 28 | Initially no effort was made to evict CPL officials and staff from the occupied buildings , but on April 20 a communist party printing works under military guard since March 30 was stormed by troops who evicted the staff , beating up some of them in the process . |
| 29 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |
| 30 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |