Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became involved after some of the cult 's former members attempted suicide . |
| 2 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 3 | That , they went to look at some in |
| 4 | they went to look at some homes in Thorne , did n't they ? |
| 5 | But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me . |
| 6 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 7 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 8 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
| 9 | He said it as though they had settled in some remote outpost of the old British Empire and not in handy , holidaymaker 's Chiantishire . |
| 10 | Carolyn asked , as they sat picking at some smoked ham and coleslaw Alan had found in the fridge . |