Example sentences of "some [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 2 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 3 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 4 | I shall be drinking some tonight no doubt and and eating . |
| 5 | For some though the future is too important to be left to the front runners in the election race : |
| 6 | Hundreds of machines , some almost a century old were spruced up and dusted down yesterday for one of the biggest events in the biking calendar . |
| 7 | The carved balconies , some over a hundred feet high , were lined with disintegrating Tau-Taus which gave the very sinister impression of watchful armies of waking dead . |