Example sentences of "some [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Pollock , 1976 , p. 157 ) Also , at least some of what we call causes may seem to be ordinary things or indeed stuff , such as the snow . |
| 2 | ‘ I paid some of what we owe the milkman and I bought some sausages and some bacon from Woolworth 's because we owe Whiting 's and I did n't want to go in there . ’ |
| 3 | He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out . |
| 4 | Drexel 's 11,000 ex-employees may not be drawn from the rainbow coalition , but lots of consumers and workers in America have reason to like some of what they did very much . |
| 5 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 6 | He brightened as he recalled some of what they had been told . |
| 7 | Unless mechanical recording is used , sociologists necessarily invent at least some of what they report . |
| 8 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 9 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 10 | Part of my process of becoming who I am involved rejecting some of what I had been born into . |
| 11 | It was n't easy to make a show with such diverse voices pull together and some of what I wrote did n't fit in ( I kept it for The Pie of Damocles later that year though ) . |
| 12 | Some of what I have to say does in fact apply to literature generally , but much of it is specific to the novel , the literary form in which I am most interested , both as a literary critic and as a practising writer . |
| 13 | Some of what I had glimpsed on the afternoon when he excised my acne was his own miniature collection of alchemical equipment . |
| 14 | I just wanted you to have some of what I had had today , some of the joy and warmth , I wanted to give you something — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You have to bear in mind the consequences for the German people and some of what you are proposing goes way beyond what is acceptable . ’ |
| 16 | And when the market does pick up again , you can expect to get back at least some of what you 've spent in the increased value of your property . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of what you have told us will have to go into a statement which you will be asked to sign . |
| 18 | Something ag again you when you 're doing it , in other areas of the industry if you 're not taught the structure you , you are not taught properly , you get these very bad habits and essential thing which is coming out by not following the structure in order I actually wrote down er by missing the business card and the buyer 's guide at the beginning , I was actually I 've got to slip this in somewhere and not listening to what you were saying and some of what you said went straight over my head which is bad because you 're missing things then . |
| 19 | Greece had hoped for a more favourable frontier with Turkey ; she got some of what she wanted in 1881 . |
| 20 | Or some of what she 's supposed to be doing |
| 21 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 22 | In the final article in this section , Rosemary Clarke compares the activities of teaching and Gestalt therapy , drawing parallels and pointing up interesting distinctions , as well as offering some of what she has learned in the course of being both a teacher and , subsequently , a therapist . |
| 23 | I hope that the Government will listen to some of what she had to say and enshrine it in law . |
| 24 | ‘ Lady Carey is correct in some of what she says but her logic is faulty , ’ he commented . |
| 25 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 26 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 27 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
| 28 | He invokes Wittgenstein 's discussion of the notion ‘ game ’ to illustrate some of what he means . |
| 29 | Although I disagreed with some of what he said , I agree that we should consider whether more people can stay in their own homes . |
| 30 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |