Example sentences of "some [prep] them [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom .
3 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 .
4 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) ) .
5 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 .
6 Some of them soon came back smiling wealthy and looking unsettled .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Some of them also gave tribute to the Yenisei Kirgiz from the Minusinsk Depression .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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
17 And some of them just hit return .
18 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
19 ‘ You can even cheek your teachers and some of them just do n't do anything , you know .
20 if some of them just do it to be on the television .
21 Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar .
22 Some of them just want to go back to places they liked while they were still alive .
23 In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations , some of them well advanced in construction .
24 The materials you will be expected to use and enjoy will include a wide range of nursing journals , some of them well established and some which are entirely new to the market .
25 They seemed unaffected however , and threw their heads back , howling with unnatural laughter as they twisted their bodies in ever more contorted movements , some of them even brushing into one or other of the fires and continuing their dance as if they had n't noticed .
26 Some of them even recognised us !
27 Some of them even seemed to think that the ego was a sort of ectoplasm that walked — or perhaps swam — about in the head !
28 Some of them even had to endure the presence of stepbrothers and -sisters , which to Camille would have been insupportable .
29 In her interesting and vivid description of the first wave Marjorie Cosens quoted numerous testimonies by teachers to this effect , and some of them even wrote to the Board of Education .
30 Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment :
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