Example sentences of "some [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |
| 2 | Eubank resisted attempts to be draw on whether he resented the prospect of some of his taxes going into another property , the repair of Windsor Castle . |
| 3 | But his confidence had grown as he watched some of his comrades fail the requirements and return to their units . |
| 4 | I did n't really understand what he was after but , although some of his questions sounded rather peculiar , I answered as best I could . |
| 5 | To write about emotions may mean that at times a piece of writing in social science reads more like a novel , indeed , may sometimes be a novel — Freud called Moses and Monotheism a novel , and apologized for some of his case-histories reading like novels rather than scientific treatises . |
| 6 | Some of his acquaintances favoured her premises by night ; like Jean-Paul , they felt the dark hours were the ones in which to drink and go hunting . |
| 7 | He was not an intellectual ; he made constant use of anecdotal evidence and some of his views bordered on the banal , but one of his great strengths has always been his resolute attachment to a few simple conservative themes . |
| 8 | I learnt later that he and some of his lords considered I was wrong to have a conversation with enemies of Lilliput . |
| 9 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 10 | Another fine prospect is Adrian Davies , the Cambridge University captain , but he has n't been blessed with much luck recently and I hope his experiences in Australia , when some of his team-mates threw in the towel , will not have destroyed his confidence . |
| 11 | Some of his well-wishers have pointed out that it is difficult to use relations as general as these to provide more than schematic explanations , and have attempted to define them more precisely . |
| 12 | A farmer said that some of his lambs had been horribly mauled at Weathercotes in the spring of 1988 ; there were huge bite marks on the lambs and paw prints nearby . |
| 13 | Some of his exploits read like folk tales . |
| 14 | I like him for being a rebel , and we agree on several issues , although I am not sure I would go along with some of his proposals to abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords . |
| 15 | And it was this message which , haltingly , the Tsar and some of his ministers began to communicate . |
| 16 | Since Watergate , Nixon has been a discredited figure and some of his attempts to bring order to the fragmented system of government stepped beyond the bounds of legality . |
| 17 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 18 | Some of his experiments suggested that high levels of processed sugar could lead to coronary thrombosis , diabetes and heart disease . |
| 19 | In the mean time , some of his lands had been occupied and doubtless protected by royalist kinsmen — by Roger de Clifford and by William de Beauchamp of Elmley [ q.v. ] , who had married one of Fitzjohn 's sisters . |
| 20 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 21 | The effect of the case , however , was the reverse of what some of his critics had hoped for : attempts to bring similar charges against others failed , and the right and indeed duty of biblical scholars to explore these questions came to be tacitly accepted in Scotland as elsewhere . |
| 22 | Some of his remarks chimed with the ideas of the Adam Smith Institute ; others ( querying whether Auntie should be involved with pop music and popular television ) smacked of Carlton Club élitism . |
| 23 | Some of his remarks have been echoed in the arguments for infallibilism given above . |
| 24 | The debtor who refused to go and defend himself against his creditor 's charges risked having some of his possessions seized and sold to pay what he still owed . |
| 25 | Some of his papers fell into the hands of Seth Ward , Sir Justinian Isham , John Collins , and Herbert Thorndike [ qq.v. ] , but in 1646 Pell lamented that most of his papers had been ‘ unmathematically divided between sequestrators and creditors ’ . |
| 26 | Sid laughingly recalls : ‘ I 'm sure some of his mates knew , but his teachers certainly did n't . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't serve him , ’ Billy Hamilton said decisively , stretching his dog-lean , fifty-year-old frame and feeling some of his joints popping . |
| 28 | It was also partly down to the well-disciplined orchestra , although the jazz idiom of , for instance , Crown 's ‘ A Red-Headed Woman ’ is not really in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's blood , and Libor Pesek was inclined to take more time than some of his soloists wanted . |
| 29 | With or without the help of the CIA and the participation of the Shah , some of his commanders left behind in Iran were still attempting to organize a coup . |
| 30 | He was a typical projector of the period , and he also had gifts as a writer , though some of his projects appear wrapped in airy rhetoric : only his colonizing plans are of enduring interest . |