Example sentences of "[pers pn] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 32 | Mother also went with me to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury 's wife , Mrs Fisher , talk to young wives and give them some advice on the repair of their families after the separations many of them had suffered . |
| 33 | I was appalled by that , and I realised there was a real need to support new members of staff by giving them some basic information . ’ |
| 34 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 35 | Without them some data gathered in orbit will have nowhere to go . |
| 36 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 37 | Parents will not concern their very young children with the details of the doctrine , as that is quite unnecessary for the establishment of the early conscience , but they should at least give them some introduction to it as soon as the need becomes obvious from their inevitable questions . |
| 38 | ‘ No doubt you meant well , ’ he said , ‘ but you have saved them some hard knocks . ’ |
| 39 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 40 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 41 | Do this to all your doors , not just the exterior ones , and treat any panes of glass in doors as though they were windows and give them some sort of double glazing . |
| 42 | By July , more than 30,000 men and women were interned , among them some 1000 refugee children registered with the RCM . |
| 43 | She wanted to punch and kick them , give them some of the treatment they doled out so carelessly . |
| 44 | To give them some advice . |
| 45 | ‘ He 'd keep them because he liked the feeling of having them and because he might like to use them some day . |
| 46 | Bearing all this in mind , it may be helpful to those who are still open to suggestions to try to work out with them some very simple menus for a seven-day period ; meals which will suit their pocket , entail little expenditure of energy , but at the same time cover all their basic dietary requirements , and which can be made tasty and interesting by the addition of some of the sauces , seasonings , and flavourings will which you can supply them . |
| 47 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 48 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 49 | TIP : When Koi start taking their first protein food , feed them some pellets treated with oxolinic acid in a concentration of 5gm per kilogram . |
| 50 | She wanted to tell them about her , to share her ghosts with them , to beg from them some mutual memory , some working-class wisdom . |
| 51 | But these vital new moves to ensure that in future all care workers will be true ‘ carers ’ must offer them some satisfaction . |
| 52 | ‘ If firms were to ring me up , I 'd give them some jolly good advice , ’ she adds … |
| 53 | ‘ I 'm keeping my wages to buy them some myself . ’ |
| 54 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
| 55 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 56 | They were afraid he 'd turn violent and do one of them some actual physical harm . |
| 57 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 58 | These gave them some confidence that they were indeed seeing neutrons from fusion , but they were by no means definitive . |
| 59 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 60 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |