Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 2 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 3 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 4 | Are they even , or do they slope in some rooms ? |
| 5 | Now that is quite different from saying that women always make bad judgements , that is to say , that they suffer from some deficiency of rationality . |
| 6 | The fact that they arc to some extent predictable does enable management to identify the times when staffing needs will be increased . |
| 7 | It was there that they bumped into some friends of Alexander 's , a couple with two young children of their own , and spent an hour chatting with them round the café table . |
| 8 | They lose their nous ( and , as they say in some quarters , their ‘ bottle ’ ) . |
| 9 | Presumably they played against some army sides ? |
| 10 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 11 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 12 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 13 | They noted with some awe the way he had risen to become one of the richest men in the county . |
| 14 | AIR travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 15 | AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 16 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 17 | They look like some sort of animal , bouncing up and down like that . |
| 18 | The MPs have concluded this could explain the leftwing bias they allege in some TV programmes . |
| 19 | You would also need to study the lists to see if there is anything conditioning the sounds , i.e. if they are in complementary distribution and belonging to the same phoneme , or if they contrast in some way , thus constituting different phonemes . |
| 20 | They talked of nothing major , but they returned to some things several times . |
| 21 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 22 | Are they based on some notion of ‘ inherent ’ differences ? |
| 23 | I wonder , I wonder what they get from some people you know . |
| 24 | Two thoughts immediately flow from this preliminary verse to those unfamiliar with these texts : ( 1 ) so they believe in some form of ghosts then do they ? and ( 2 ) but he did n't believe in God so what has happened to my husband ? |
| 25 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 26 | If they originate from some person of eminence they have , of course , additional prestige ; but they are prized in their own right because many are beautiful in themselves and are representative of their time and place . |
| 27 | Once you are in the loft , it is better to use compression or push-fit fittings since they allow for some adjustment later and the fire risk of using a blowlamp is avoided . |
| 28 | Do they go into some kind of limbo ; leaderless , lost and lacking direction ? |
| 29 | If they ask for some cheese , you wo n't get it on the meat counter will you ? |
| 30 | The nurses meanwhile had put the tube in , and now they blew in some air as well . |