Example sentences of "some of [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them around here would n't think twice about dragging you away for no reason . ’ |
| 2 | Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ . |
| 3 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 4 | Increasingly , investigators have become aware of a rather heterogeneous range of problems ( some of them not particularly easy to formulate ) which may be characterized as ethical . |
| 5 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 6 | and erm there were all sorts of funny stories and erm some of them not quite so funny about erm the way that the children and erm mothers from Dagenham came by sea and landed at , at Felixstowe |
| 7 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 8 | But in many parts of the world , and some of them not very far away from here , upheavals and agonies are going on , not unlike some of those experienced within the lifetime of the subject of tonight 's lecture . |
| 9 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 10 | ‘ Tales about married men , some of them not all that far away from here either . ’ |
| 11 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 12 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 13 | Some of them even more horrible than being described as ‘ decent ’ by a wonky-gobbed ex-public school exhibitionist and professional arsehole with a gnat 's testicle for a brain . |
| 14 | There are ideas here , some of them probably pretty good . |
| 15 | Open villages , on the other hand , were centres of the rural underworld — some of them notoriously so — and displayed their independence of squirearchal authority not only by engaging in petty criminal activity but by becoming centres of pre-political and political activity which opposed ‘ official ’ values and attitudes . |
| 16 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 17 | The difference between the West now and the West in the nineteenth century , is that now the largest part of the price for development is paid by the invisible people of the so-called Third World , rather than by the pauperised urban proletariat of mills , mines and factories , though there are still some of them about too . |
| 18 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 19 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 20 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 21 | ‘ I liked some of them very much indeed , ’ Matilda said , ‘ but I thought others were fairly dull . ’ |
| 22 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 23 | There are a number of good books on sampling , some of them now particularly aimed at the social scientist , but even the best of books can only deal with problems in fairly general terms . |
| 24 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 25 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 26 | But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd . |
| 27 | ‘ It cuts across some of our most deeply held inhibitions and taboos , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Where do we start when it comes to some of our not so good years in the second division . |
| 29 | It is particularly pleasing to see some of our more recently qualified teachers already participating so fully to the life , and continuing success , of the Society . |
| 30 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |