Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 2 | It was there that they bumped into some friends of Alexander 's , a couple with two young children of their own , and spent an hour chatting with them round the café table . |
| 3 | Presumably they played against some army sides ? |
| 4 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 5 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 6 | They noted with some awe the way he had risen to become one of the richest men in the county . |
| 7 | AIR travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 8 | AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 9 | They talked of nothing major , but they returned to some things several times . |
| 10 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 11 | The nurses meanwhile had put the tube in , and now they blew in some air as well . |
| 12 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 13 | They went down some stairs . |
| 14 | The Bradwell School Board in the beginning comprised Rev A.C. Woodhouse , Messrs Ward , Wyllie , C.W. Powell ( Solicitor ) , and it appears they struggled for some years . |
| 15 | Behind her , in the distant heat haze , two thirsty rhinos raised a wall of dust as they lumbered past some waterbuck to a watering hole . |
| 16 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 17 | doing , or did doing , they did for some purpose did n't they ? |
| 18 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 19 | A ‘ landmine ’ destroyed one vehicle , a patrol was ambushed as they spoke to some locals , and a foreign parachute and map were discovered on a beach after a tip-off . |
| 20 | Peggy moved her head in a gesture that brought her mother 's and Henry 's full attention on her , and they waited for some seconds before Peggy , moving up the hall towards the drawing-room , explained , ‘ It 's … it 's his particular part of the day ; he … he likes to see to her himself . ’ |
| 21 | When they left the restaurant they stood for some moments surveying the view of Prague , its many spires , red-roofed buildings , with a green dome here , the Vltava river with some of its bridges there , the Charles Bridge in particular Then , ‘ Shall we walk the rest of the way down ? ’ |
| 22 | They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began . |