Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 2 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 3 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 4 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 5 | For a sufficient income they depend also on some fishing and the sale to tourists of vegetables , milk and craft products . |
| 6 | They parked up among some bombed-out ruins , assuming that they had been rumbled . |
| 7 | As they drove off with some fast acceleration , Rose said , ‘ She 's probably out , anyway . |
| 8 | We asked five GH staff what their best beauty buys of all time were , and they came up with some interesting products . |
| 9 | and they I said , yeah , so I got oh and they came up with some really good a ideas , you know ! |
| 10 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 11 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 12 | Glazed , red-rimmed , they stare off into some dim distant past that has mid-1980s written all over it . |
| 13 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 14 | They broke down to some extent , particularly in Bohemia , the former administrative separatism of the provinces , and provided the monarchy with an income far greater and an army far stronger than it had ever possessed before . |
| 15 | They settled down to some serious kissing . |
| 16 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 17 | " Yeah , they have to spend so much of the galactic year out of the Milky Way or the galactic tax federation hammers them for gigacredits , but instead of paying for expensive inter-galactic travel they camp out on some backwater planet still in the galaxy and just hide , see ? |
| 18 | Pale violet in colour , they waved gently in some invisible wind . |
| 19 | Because although the problems in which philosophers begin are fairly easy to state and quite straightforward , erm certainly when they begin they end up in some rather strange regions . |
| 20 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
| 21 | In their ‘ kitchen ’ ( a sink , a hot plate and a kettle , with no proper cooking or storage facilities ) , they point proudly to some Tory Party mugs they had biked over from Smith Square after the election . |
| 22 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 23 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 24 | And Corner well er it it 's turned full circle has it were when we came and then er there were other firms they did away with some part of the shop . |
| 25 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |
| 26 | Again , there are complex vertical linkages in the industry and , again , there is a block exemption which covers distribution arrangements within the industry , provided they remain within certain parameters ( which the European Community 's DGIV believe they do not in some respects ) . |
| 27 | These are needs that they would not develop in the wild state , so they exist only in some horses . |
| 28 | They relate closely to some key debates about the nature of historical explanation of family relationships and family change , as between the ‘ household economics ’ and the ‘ sentiments ’ schools of historical explanation ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes , as in south-east Somerset , Dunsmore in Warwickshire , Ready Token in Gloucestershire , and Rymer , Breckland , in Norfolk , they come together at some common feature , such as an upland pond in a generally waterless area , an area of upland waste , or a piece of shared woodland . |
| 30 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |