Example sentences of "some [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members will be there to welcome any newcomers to give help and to lend woods , though there are some owned by the club for anyone 's use . |
| 2 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 3 | Some spiders hide in a handy crevice in the bark of a tree ; some hide beneath a leaf ; and other spiders build a funnel as part of their web and hide in that . |
| 4 | The trade union officials involved in the agreements were fully aware of their two-sided nature , and some admitted to a sense of bad conscience at seeing the regular dismissal of " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 5 | Mr McGill repairs a window to make it safe , paints the air raid shelter door , does some concreting in the garden . |
| 6 | Some skidded to a halt and deposited their jockeys on the landing side . |
| 7 | The only Roman coins to bear an explicit date were some very rare ones made by the Emperor Hadrian in ‘ the year of the city 874 ’ ( i.e. , AD121 ) and some made by the usurper Pacatian ‘ in the 1001st year of Eternal Rome ’ ( i.e. , AD249 ) . |
| 8 | I have quite a collection of private binaural tapes and commercial discs , including some made by the Stax agent in Germany . |
| 9 | Sonja uncovers a number of scandalous facts when she does some research for an essay competition — the title she picks is ‘ My Home Town in the Third Reich ’ . |
| 10 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 11 | Some plugged into the energy and popularity of rock 'n' roll ; others borrowed techniques from contemporary classical music . |
| 12 | It was built in 1632 by Sir Edward Peyto , some say to a design by Inigo Jones , though that is unproven . |
| 13 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 14 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 15 | A move from consensus management , where a small , but arguably representative nucleus of people had at least some say in the decision-making , to a more dictatorial style known as ‘ general management ’ now means that decisions are made by one man or woman who may accept or reject the advice of interested parties , including nursing and medical advisers . |
| 16 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 17 | Stockbrokers W I Carr are aiming the Helmsman Self-Managed Personal Pension at controlling directors , partners , self-employed and senior executives who want some say in the control of their investments . |
| 18 | Indeed , to invite him to do so , it seems to me , can only be misleading in suggesting that the driver is entitled to some say in the matter . |
| 19 | King Harold was slain — some say by an arrow piercing his eye — and the rest , of course , is history . |
| 20 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 21 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 22 | Some caught in the rigging and thudded to the deck , spitting and baring their fangs at us before being hurriedly kicked overboard . |
| 23 | Now if you relate that to other things the government does like , for example , financing a fighter aeroplane , which costs £30 million , the sums are so small , one would hope there would be some shift in the allocation of resources towards the museums sector and the arts generally , because they are such extraordinarily important features of British life , not least in commercial terms . |
| 24 | There 's no budget provision , and as a consequence approval is being sought for that some to come from the contingency . |
| 25 | In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing . |
| 26 | Since then many more have been established , some created by the Government to oversee newly-privatised industries and others set up by private companies attracted by the idea of a ‘ righter of wrongs ’ whom the public see as independent and impartial . |
| 27 | Some depend on the ability to find or switch extra support , to seek outside help or to use the skills of new staff . |
| 28 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 29 | Some identified with a form of theology called ‘ liberation theology ‘ . |
| 30 | Some came under the heading of national interest : the broader danger of an unstable Europe , the inviolability of recognised borders . |