Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 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 | For a sufficient income they depend also on some fishing and the sale to tourists of vegetables , milk and craft products . |
| 3 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 4 | Pale violet in colour , they waved gently in some invisible wind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | These are needs that they would not develop in the wild state , so they exist only in some horses . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |