Example sentences of "they [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | To force cyclists to lock and unlock their bikes , detach and reattach shopping bags , lift off children and carry them perhaps for some distance , are all seen as ways of penalising cyclists and by implication encouraging the convenience of car use . |
| 2 | Luke would never forgive her if she gave them away with some unwitting comment . |
| 3 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 4 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 5 | On the semantic level , thirdly , it has been observed that even though infinitives have no endings for person or number , they do have " a reference to some subject … ; though their grammatical dependence connects them frequently with some other term " ( Brown 1884 : 337 ) . |
| 6 | But because mountain peaks require specialist flora and fauna , and are often separate one from another , they also to some extent resemble islands ; and indeed , they have been called ‘ sky islands ’ . |
| 7 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |