Example sentences of "some [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some skidded to a halt and deposited their jockeys on the landing side . |
| 4 | It was built in 1632 by Sir Edward Peyto , some say to a design by Inigo Jones , though that is unproven . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some identified with a form of theology called ‘ liberation theology ‘ . |
| 7 | The air was full of falling leaves — red , gold , some reduced to a filigree of veins like a sketch of a leaf drawn in the misty air . |
| 8 | He needs some coaxing with a pencil , |
| 9 | He wrote plays and sent them off to West End managements and kept writing when they were rejected : he did some work as a freelance writer , producer and actor on BBC Radio which had studios in Cardiff . |
| 10 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 11 | Some arrive in a prison with a death sentence barely literate , but the years on death row offer bizarre opportunities for examining the legal system , the injustice of the death penalty , and social deprivation in America . |
| 12 | Some arrive in a blaze of publicity and promise , only — like DDT and many others — to be banished in disgrace for creating insufficiently researched ‘ side effects ’ . |
| 13 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 14 | The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony . |
| 15 | Some argue for a distinction between soft and hard porn ; others for a distinction between erotica and pornography . |
| 16 | So Randolph Henry Ash , ca 1840 , when he was writing Ragnarök , a poem in twelve books , which some saw as a Christianising of the Norse myth and some trounced as atheistic and diabolically despairing . |
| 17 | Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures . |
| 18 | it will do me erm er , er Sunday joint a dinner and then there 's some left for Monday and then there 's some left for a stew you know |
| 19 | Sections of the retail trade itself are also likely to welcome a slow down in what some see as a development free-for-all which could damage the balance of retail provision and lead to an over-supply of retail space in the near future . |
| 20 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |