Example sentences of "some [n mass] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Report was , of course , the subject of much debate , particularly concerning the validity of some data used to support its contentions . |
| 2 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 3 | I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up . |
| 4 | WHILE some folk have won their currency gambles , many more are n't so lucky . |
| 5 | Some fish seem to recover even faster . |
| 6 | Some statistics do back this up . |
| 7 | Some swine had bashed the offside rear three-quarter in a very clumsy attempt to park behind me . |
| 8 | The Turkish army was said by the Iraqi government and by some media reports to have used napalm . |
| 9 | From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter , and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night . |
| 10 | Some people try to force their partner to be the person they want them to be . |
| 11 | Here , in Britain too , some people try to do that , though for most of us it is n't easy since we have no prosperity . |
| 12 | Some people try to use the escape hatch of saying that the problem is a religious one , but it is not , although there are substantial religious overtones . |
| 13 | One of the greatest sources of human happiness is sexual love , and some people try to pursue this source of satisfaction above all else . |
| 14 | But some people try to trick children into doing something by giving them sweets or money . |
| 15 | Some people try to introduce toys that do not reinforce gender stereotypes but , nevertheless , girls are much more likely to get dolls to dress up in the latest fashion , boys more likely to get toys for military-type games . |
| 16 | Puppies do not grow into very large ears , as some people try to tell you . |
| 17 | Some people try to keep their fish at a temperature of about 70°F ( usually in an attempt to reduce the electricity bill ) and then wonder why their pets are sluggish , wo n't feed , and do n't show any sign of breeding . |
| 18 | Some people began to throw stones , the police hustled the teller off the pitch into a police car and drove him hurriedly away . |
| 19 | Sometimes some people wish to withdraw into settings deliberately chosen for their regulation and predictability , such as the armed forces , nunneries , monasteries — even prison itself . |
| 20 | What if John was dead , as some people seemed to think . |
| 21 | Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself . |
| 22 | And yet some people managed to do i Yeah |
| 23 | Some people managed to do that . |
| 24 | Some people seek to avoid privatized or nuclear-family living and make alternative household arrangements . |
| 25 | Much as some people hate going to school , they will frequently be glad afterwards that they were made to do so . |
| 26 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |
| 27 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 28 | Some people had written dates under their names and sometimes there were short messages . |
| 29 | Mr Taylor said he had received dozens of phone calls supporting what he said and claimed that some people had asked to join the Ulster Unionists as a result . |
| 30 | In the area surrounding the plant there was some confusion about what had happened , some people had heard and heeded the warnings , others had not heard anything . |