Example sentences of "some [prep] [pron] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them take a second or two to stop whirring and clacking as they wind tape off a drum . |
| 2 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 3 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 4 | There was a ring of children , they were giggling , but some of them looked a bit frightened . |
| 5 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 6 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 7 | ‘ And some of them do a turn , ’ said Lawrence . |
| 8 | Some of them have a construction like meat or that soya substitute , you ca n't tell the difference . |
| 9 | Some of them have a lot of holes . ’ |
| 10 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |
| 11 | There are more manufacturing countries than ever before , some of which use a style of labour relations based on the industrial dark ages . |
| 12 | Yet they had in common healthy self-esteem and the need to form passionate personal relationships , some of which had a way of overlapping . |
| 13 | There are many forest species , including flying foxes , or fruit bats , some of which have a wing-span of 5 ft ( 1.5 m ) . |
| 14 | Some of they find a taste for it . |
| 15 | Some of you build a personality which you believe the world wants you to be , but which belies your real self . |
| 16 | I suggest that he does n't ( indicative ) know what he 's talking about and that he do ( subjunctive ) his homework before crossing swords with self-respecting pedants like me — some of us have a reputation to think of ! |
| 17 | Some of us have a feeling of being fundamentally deprived . |
| 18 | Eventually she explained that she owed money to a stall-keeper who sold second-hand clothing : she had stupidly borrowed some from him to buy a dress . |