Example sentences of "they [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met some girlfriends of Jessica 's , and ended up having cakes and coffee and a laugh . |
| 2 | By 0900hrs the Japanese were back to raid other specified targets , this time they met some opposition in the air , several American fighters were now airborne but the pilots had no combat experience so the Japanese had the advantage . |
| 3 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 4 | And they got some stick for that . |
| 5 | and then er , they got some units from M F I , they 're beautiful |
| 6 | He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them . |
| 7 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 8 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 9 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 10 | In a rather tentative manner , they made some suggestions on how they thought it could be improved . |
| 11 | Though they produced some statuary in Classical and Hellenistic styles they were not copyists . |
| 12 | They stared at each other in silence for a moment , surprised to find that they shared some fragment of a common cause : the unsolved mysteries that troubled them both , though twenty years and half a world apart , were somehow one and the same . |
| 13 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 14 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 15 | They want some kind of ‘ market ’ solution — by which they usually mean spreading losses around to other , unaffected names . |
| 16 | Lovins 's adversaries were both numerous and powerful ; and they drew some consolation from his tendency to write prose of baroque opacity , sometimes more than 50 per cent footnotes , and accessible only to the dogged . |
| 17 | They charged some people with the murder a year later . |
| 18 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 19 | He come in , his eye 's right out here , and it 's streaming with water and he says he 's been to hospital , they dripped some water in it , washed it out must be mine that , what do you reckon ? |
| 20 | McCullough ‘ Then at noon on the 10th , they found some activity on the roof of the meteorological station ; this was unusual , and they knew that something had gone wrong … |
| 21 | They found some sheets in a walk-in cupboard , linen ones with LVS embroidered on them . |
| 22 | Misoprostol or H 2 receptor antagonists may represent an alternative approach as , when used in combination with NSAIDs , they provide some protection against gastric and duodenal damage . |
| 23 | If we return , for example , to the case of student protesters , we have already noted that they show some signs of a need for parental surrogates , and certainly they are seldom complete anarchists . |
| 24 | What had the members seen for their entrance fees and contributions when it could be shown that in that year they received some £pound9,000 in benefit while over £pound32,000 went into the management of the union ? |
| 25 | United 's record is n't a lot to sing about , but they deserve some cheers for the way they keep plugging away and its not always they 're fault . |
| 26 | 7 They put some emphasis on consumer choice . |
| 27 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 28 | Erm , they put some screws in the roof , yeah ? |
| 29 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 30 | But on top of that if we make less than 22 , say 20 or 21 , they cut some money from our basic pay … |