Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 2 | As people grow older , however , they may be more likely to develop illnesses or conditions which make it more difficult for them to cope without some help or support . |
| 3 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 4 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 5 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 6 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 7 | Jose Martinez , father of a six-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy , says : ‘ I send my kids to school for an education , not to have them used in some political game . |
| 8 | The selection of committees is an important matter and the newly-elected councillor , if he has any preferences , should make them known in some form either to his political group or to his acquaintances on the council . |
| 9 | Even so , they amounted to some ten thousand men , a gallant and glittering array of knightly chivalry and armoured strength . |
| 10 | When we look specifically at machinery imports from the West , we find that at their peak in the mid-1970s , they amounted to some 5–6 per cent of equipment investment . |
| 11 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 12 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 13 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 14 | Are they even , or do they slope in some rooms ? |
| 15 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 16 | Now that is quite different from saying that women always make bad judgements , that is to say , that they suffer from some deficiency of rationality . |
| 17 | The fact that they arc to some extent predictable does enable management to identify the times when staffing needs will be increased . |
| 18 | At this juncture the peace of the night was rent by the sudden wail of air-raid sirens , and as they started to walk off they bumped into some Italian soldiers . |
| 19 | It was there that they bumped into some friends of Alexander 's , a couple with two young children of their own , and spent an hour chatting with them round the café table . |
| 20 | They provided for some right to initiate legislation ( at present the prerogative of the Commission ) , and for the EP to see Commission proposals before the Council of Ministers , which would then work on texts already amended by the EP . |
| 21 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 22 | They lose their nous ( and , as they say in some quarters , their ‘ bottle ’ ) . |
| 23 | These do 's and don'ts in no way outline a " system " but they focus on some of the mechanisms and ideas sometimes neglected by practising teachers already familiar with these general concepts . |
| 24 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 25 | Judges of the superior courts may not be sued for anything done or said while acting in their judicial capacity even if they act from some malicious or corrupt motive . |
| 26 | Presumably they played against some army sides ? |
| 27 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 28 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 29 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 30 | They stop beside some huge aloes , spiky plants with red flowers , where sunbirds hover and dart . |