Example sentences of "some of they [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem .
2 But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’
3 The paper bag slipped , she grabbed it and it tore open at the bottom , spilling its contents onto the empty teacups near Miss Angus and turning some of them over with an attention-drawing rattle .
4 Dista handed some of them over to the CSM in October , four months later .
5 ‘ Not until next week — that will seem like a lifetime away to them ; but I am taking some of them out on Sunday up to Pelham Woods for a walk ; how about joining us ? ’
6 In turn I took some of them back with me to Cliff Top .
7 Well I was just thinking , you know , w er when we have the kids with us and that sort of thing , presumably we 'll be having some of them down over erm Easter
8 Some of them down to six and seven .
9 Another phenomenon which took many of the gentry by surprise and swept some of them along with it , albeit protesting , was an outbreak of Puritan fanaticism in eastern Sussex in 1642 ; it encouraged paradoxically a tendency to religious broadness of mind seen as quite distinct from the narrow views of Archbishop Laud .
10 The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ .
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