Example sentences of "some [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skipped lunch in order to go shopping , spending some of her carefully hoarded wages on a new outfit for the occasion . |
| 2 | Nearer to Christmas time they are supplemented by college and older school students , some of whom already work in the store on late night shopping evenings or at the weekend . |
| 3 | He was a laughing man of wit and humour — many a time he referred to the ‘ larks and escapades ’ with his special friends , some of whom doubtless remembered his satirical poem at Pisa against the rule about wearing academic togas in town . |
| 4 | Gorbachev 's plans for more radical nuclear weapons cuts were generally received with caution , however , by Western leaders , some of whom reportedly questioned the feasibility of the proposals in the face of the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | At the same time he must go on reassuring other parties — some of whom bloody-mindedly reject negotiation — that their views will be heard . |
| 6 | In addition , he had to mould a group of individuals , some of whom barely knew each other , into a team . |
| 7 | He had links with the rulers purged by the king in 1258 , some of whom likewise emerged as Montfortians in 1263 . |
| 8 | On the other hand , when they got the chance , they drank more than was good for them , and they all smoked , either surreptitiously or openly , depending on where they were and the various fashions in tolerance among their parents , some of whom still smoked cannabis to the scorn of their offspring . |
| 9 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 10 | Quite apart from Franco 's youth — he was only 44 in 1936 — his cautiousness towards involvement in conspiratorial activity had attracted criticism from many fellow officers , some of whom scornfully dubbed him ‘ Miss Canary Islands of 1936 ’ . |
| 11 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 12 | All this has profoundly affected those who teach RE in both primary and secondary schools , some of whom really do not seem to know what the subject is about . |
| 13 | Some of them evidently knew her , for they said ‘ they would not put up with her as her husband did when she was at home and in England ’ . |
| 14 | Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom . |
| 15 | While I was sitting waiting for Jenny , a number of well-dressed women of about my age filed past me , some of them evidently wearied by their afternoon of serious picture-watching . |
| 16 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 17 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 18 | Some of them soon came back smiling wealthy and looking unsettled . |
| 19 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 20 | The creatures that showed all this to Taylor and Norman Heglund are gone now , some of them posthumously taken apart limb by limb to ascertain their centres of gravity . |
| 21 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 22 | The flowers were mainly chosen to accentuate the overall silvery effect , but some of them also came from the ‘ bride 's ’ garden , as I felt this would give the picture additional meaning for her . |
| 23 | Many other animals that harbour secret chemical defences also show themselves fearlessly to the world and some of them also perform special displays that indicate their readiness to engage in a chemical encounter . |
| 24 | Some of them also gave tribute to the Yenisei Kirgiz from the Minusinsk Depression . |
| 25 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 26 | Of course , they may have got him wrong , since some of them also suggested that the great man had once possessed a robust sense of humour . |
| 27 | In general , in a system of large enough horizontal extent , one expects to find a spatially random distribution of thermals with some of them just forming , some in vigorous convection and some fading away , with the interval between formation and fading away being very variable . |
| 28 | Well the majority of them are a , abused or get thrown out of mental centres , I mean , some of them just run away from home because they want to and that 's only a minority , lots of them have |
| 29 | And some of them just hit return . |
| 30 | Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area |