Example sentences of "some [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should keep some off the floor , I think it should be in |
| 2 | ‘ And Hilary 's taking some off the top for himself … ’ |
| 3 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 4 | When we use it in school , in When you 've scrapped some off the layer you ca n't touch otherwise your fingerprints will be all over it . |
| 5 | When she dived , she felt around in the tussock of tough brown japweed for the knubbly cigua whelks underneath , and prised some off the coral just below the waterline . |
| 6 | As Lewis was very fond of champagne , he had offered Eliot some during a sitting in the spring of 1937 . |
| 7 | Milk , a little dip of milk was sold , into a jug , there were no bottles , and er you could get some for a ha'penny . |
| 8 | For a few minutes she explained the system on which the cards were arranged , then let him try to select some for a bibliography she was compiling on nutrition in underdeveloped countries . |
| 9 | And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present |
| 10 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 11 | that 's fucking going some for a ship that size I would love to have be able to fly with the or something |
| 12 | And then you 'll want some for the holiday , when we go just to Cromer wo n't you ? |
| 13 | Then I had some for the car I thought , go and have a look at Tracy . |
| 14 | I want some for the erection at the side of the pool there . |
| 15 | I said , well I did say to her this morning I said there 's a some for the baby and some bits of chocolate . |
| 16 | and then I take it all erm , I start doing them regularly , I think it 's probably a tax you know some for the tax that they did , spend a lot of money |
| 17 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 18 | Alternatively it was seen by some as a warning to the opposition that the process of democratization would have its limits . |
| 19 | The move was interpreted by some as a concession to Lloyd 's brokers who supply the market with its business . |
| 20 | The move was interpreted by some as a concession to Lloyd 's brokers who supply the market with its business . |
| 21 | That 48½inch long weapon , described by some as a monstrosity and others as an affront to decency and the Royal and Ancient game , has , according to Sam , done no less than salvage his entire career . |
| 22 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |
| 23 | Since both bodies are appointed by , or on the advice of , government they have come to be seen by some as a buffer between the state and the broadcasters but by others as an indirect mechanism by which the state can exert control over broadcasting . |
| 24 | Developing nations argued that the motion on protection of rainforests abused their right to self-determination [ see ED 49-50 ] and the convention on biodiversity was seen by some as a ruse to gain control of their resources . |
| 25 | This needs repeating several times because with his notorious drip paintings he came to be thought of by some as a dripster , a drooler , a mere pourer . |
| 26 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 27 | The Second World War has been seen by some as a kind of watershed , with the post-war period being morally inferior to the ‘ full rich back street life and culture of pre-war England ’ . |
| 28 | This sector has also been referred to by some as a lumpenproletariat . |
| 29 | Developments included the realistic estimation of 11 million years as the likely time required for the production of an erosion surface and Linton ( 1957 ) had shown that the time scale used by some as a frame of reference for landscape evolution was too long . |
| 30 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |