Example sentences of "[prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 2 | Samuel Johnson might have said something similar , though in a very different idiom , about some accepted masterpiece of European literature . |
| 3 | I am thinking of unfortunate scholars in foreign universities who can not ‘ hold down their jobs ’ unless they repeatedly publish articles each of which must say , or seem to say , something new about some literary work … |
| 4 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 5 | Jackson is the first to admit that the numbers of people having a thing about some of the later material have taken a dip . |
| 6 | They also feel obligated to deal as effectively as possible with whatever problems these casual encounters throw up , such as people asking advice about a summons or other aspects of the law , or about some official form which they are having difficulty in completing , how to get rid of obstructions on the pavement outside their house , or traffic obstructions . |
| 7 | A short distance away another cow was grazing , apparently unconcerned about some of its intestines trailing in the grass from under its belly . |
| 8 | ‘ What about some crumpets for tea ? ’ she says . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 10 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 11 | A mathematical proof about some property of a triangle does not , Gassendi thinks , give demonstrative understanding of its cause . |
| 12 | If you wear spectacles , how about some new frames or tinted lenses ? |
| 13 | On the one hand , coins can give us the only information we have about some buildings , such as the vanished Roman Temple of Augustus and Livia between the Palatine and Capitol which was restored by Antoninus Pius in AD158-9 . |
| 14 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 15 | And we have talked about some of the extra-curricular activities that pretty young girls sometimes get invited to try . |
| 16 | Lloyds may be the only bank turning up its nose at the dollar bill , but the others are n't wild about some large-denomination European notes which often have to be shipped back to their country of origin rather than recycled through the system . |
| 17 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 18 | The local management of schools policy appears to threaten the basis of much of what we have known ; and there is undoubtedly much concern about some of the ‘ new ’ skills which will be needed . |
| 19 | Mould talked about some of his previous attempts to escape . |
| 20 | Endill led the way through the corridors , talking about some of the rooms he had visited nearby and in other parts of the school . |
| 21 | Talk about some grammatical differences between spoken Standard English and a non-standard variety . |
| 22 | Talk about some of the factors that influence people 's attitudes to the way other people speak . |
| 23 | Talk about examples ( from their own experience or from their reading ) of changes in word use and meaning over time , and about some of the reasons for these changes , eg technological developments , euphemism , contact with other languages , fashion . |
| 24 | Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English . |
| 25 | Write about some features of presentation which are used to achieve identifiable purposes , such as to inform , to regulate , to reassure or to persuade , in non-literary and media texts , showing some ability to form a considered opinion — eg when comparing two reports of the same event . |
| 26 | Identify in their reading , and talk and write about some of the changes in the grammar of English over time , eg in pronouns ( from thou and thee to you ) , in verb forms , in negatives , etc . |
| 27 | Recognise and write about some of the techniques and conventions of presentation in non-literary and media texts , and the effectiveness of their use in specific instances — eg structure of news stories , or the way television programmes and newspapers match style and content to targeted audiences . |
| 28 | 17.21 Teachers should both create and respond to opportunities to focus on aspects of knowledge about written language and about some of the differences between speech and writing . |
| 29 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 30 | Even before Heseltine announced he was standing there were a number of press smears about some of his closest aides , the worst example being a report in The Sun on 13 November headlined ‘ The Adulterer , The Bungler and The Joker ’ , which Mrs Thatcher was forced publicly to disavow . |