Example sentences of "some [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age , some of them using crutches . |
| 2 | Long ones , short ones , stubby ones , in all the colours of the rainbow and some of them displaying names that went back generations in the East End . |
| 3 | The implementation of the legislation was delayed to enable some of them to acquire qualifications . |
| 4 | Often Parliamentary lists record only one side of the division , some of them contain errors , and because division lists were often published for propaganda purposes , sometimes errors were deliberately introduced in order to mislead the people about how a particular member had voted . |
| 5 | Some of them contain seams of a fine-grained flint-like substance called chert . |
| 6 | Some of them offered help , but more usually they were there to ask for favours — which nearly always meant money . |
| 7 | It might encourage some of them to lose interest and go away . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd be surprised , some of them make bookings with the beautician and hairdresser even before they come on board . ’ |
| 9 | Some of them supplemented wages from the great estates with tiny holdings , where they were lucky enough to have them . |
| 10 | Some of them brought candles and torches . |
| 11 | The movements are short and comparatively chaste in their polyphonic expression , some of them leaving space for text to be completed in plainsong ; while the credo , uniquely in Carver 's output , is composed in the note-against-note plainsong harmonisation technique of Faburden . |
| 12 | Some of them had patterns on . ’ |
| 13 | Some of them had chains round their boats , fore and aft , to hold them together , do they d ha sunk ; busted right open from the swelling of the wood with too much water . |
| 14 | Some of them had faces : red-raw and wrinkled , with tiny eyes and pursed lips . |
| 15 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 16 | Some of them had babies before they were married . |
| 17 | Demonstrations and disorders continued , some of them involving firearms , explosives and loss of life ; the decision of the Congress of People 's Deputies to elect an Azerbaijani as well as an Armenian to represent the region in the new Supreme Soviet aroused particular indignation . |
| 18 | As we watched , some of them took flight and went into their circling display , calling all the time . |
| 19 | Some of them use super P C K and some of them use Smart Drive and buggered if I can tell the difference . |
| 20 | Various other theories also exist , some of them combining elements of both retributivism and reductivism . |
| 21 | Some of them suggested connections with London criminals , as well as connections in South Wales . |
| 22 | Pouring across the Pennines from Lancashire to be joined by eager exalted crowds from Bradford , Halifax , Barnoldswick , Huddersfield , Frizingley , some of them carrying sticks and flails and home-made pikes , most of them empty-handed and full-hearted , singing their Chartist hymns of freedom and justice and brotherhood and stopping every mill they passed on their way by the simple process of removing the plug from the boiler , letting off the mill-dam , and drawing the workers into their ranks with the irresistible attraction of a ragged , hundred-handed Pied Piper . |
| 23 | The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that a number of " destructive elements " , some of them carrying bombs , had been arrested near the Games village . |
| 24 | For example , if we observe only public speakers in Belfast ( newscasters , reporters and the like ) , we will notice that some of them adopt quasi-RP forms in their public styles . |
| 25 | There are well signposted walks , some of them offering views of the snow-topped Alps . |
| 26 | I wandered among the stone cleithan above the village , and imagined them hanging with sides of mutton and gannets , or perhaps some of them held hay for the animals or peat for burning . |
| 27 | Some of them wanted pint-pots worked in fancy stitch on the back , or maybe a horse 's head or even a fox-head . |
| 28 | What Im saying is that there s no harm keeping these players … maybe loan some of them to lower clubs to get more experience etc . |
| 29 | But will some of them propose ways to eliminate the ‘ bad ’ genes from others ? |
| 30 | Yes some of them have love scenes which I will do if the script is right . |