Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 2 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 3 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 4 | She 'd had a cocktail of them at some point that morning . ’ |
| 5 | She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another . |
| 6 | The receiver 's got to dispose of them at some stage . |
| 7 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 8 | I mean , since it 's Christmas would n't it be a good idea to invoke a Sanity Clause against the entire Cabinet , committing the whole damn lot of them to some underfunded and desperate NHS asylum ? |
| 9 | And one of them to some extent has has has already been discussed . |
| 10 | The issues discussed in this chapter relate mainly to the second and third options and in particular to proposals to replace a large ‘ proportion of them with some type of negative income tax system broadly defined . |
| 11 | As in the front , the windows here were fully curtained , all of them looking decidedly posh and new ; and all of them with some approximation to those French pleats whose acquaintance Lewis had so recently made — and , if truth were told , Morse too . |
| 12 | However , structuralist criticism differs from all of them on some important issues . |
| 13 | The creature scuttled ahead of them like some small black spider , opened the padlocked door and waved his guests forward . |
| 14 | We were here for six days before the camels arrived , but were reassured by hearing news of them from some of the many pilgrims who passed through our camp on their way to a famous shrine of Sheikh Husain ; all carried peeled , forked wands as an emblem of their pilgrimage . |
| 15 | To give you a better idea of how these three areas can contribute to self-control and ability to succeed with weight control , we will next look at each of them in some detail . |
| 16 | I found two of them in some old dear 's garden at Cherton ! |
| 17 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 18 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 19 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 20 | ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio . |
| 21 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 22 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 23 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 24 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 25 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 27 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 28 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 29 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |
| 30 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |