Example sentences of "some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ready for the Christmas party , and some er some fiend broke in an nicked all the presents . |
| 2 | He kept babbling then about some fiend that had taken possession of him . |
| 3 | Some of these are full , some half-filled and some empty . |
| 4 | Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties . |
| 5 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 6 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 7 | The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association . |
| 8 | Given that we have no privileged access to the minds of others we must proceed on some hypothesis about mental events or mental states . |
| 9 | Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver . |
| 10 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 11 | She sloshed some whisky into the cup . |
| 12 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 13 | He murmured that he would have some whisky instead . |
| 14 | He accepted some whisky . |
| 15 | Here — have some whisky . |
| 16 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 17 | I 'm going to make you a cup of tea and we 'll put some whisky in it to make you feel better . |
| 18 | Do you want some whisky ? ’ |
| 19 | He was there before Rose with some whisky waiting for her . |
| 20 | You want some whisky in did |
| 21 | Do you want some whisky in your tea ? |
| 22 | After all that trauma of fixing it in , you 'd better have some whisky and honey had n't you ? |
| 23 | I need some whisky ! |
| 24 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 25 | Overall , Joan 's only uses a few Creole features : some Creole past tense forms ( did go , etc . |
| 26 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 27 | Sell some OTC , and a lot of main market stocks . |
| 28 | His views had some support in the party . |
| 29 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 30 | There is some support for this in that melatonin capsules can be taken in the evening to produce a consistent overnight rise in the blood concentration of this hormone and that this treatment appears to stabilize the sleep/wake rhythm of blind subjects . |