Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | First though , while in Cairo , Stirling met some illustrious company . |
| 2 | ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors . |
| 3 | A study of forty-eight major new product innovations in four-US sectors suggested that the ratio of imitation costs to innovation costs averaged about 65 per cent on average , while imitation times averaged some 70 per cent of innovation times . |
| 4 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 5 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 6 | The illegal settlement housed some 30,000 displaced people , mainly from the south of the country . |
| 7 | The Hammers produced some classy football at times , but Tranmere were equally impressive . |
| 8 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 9 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 10 | Your sister got some did n't she |
| 11 | Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries . |
| 12 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 13 | Kelly made some superb runs , and was one of the better crossers of the ball . |
| 14 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 15 | The sub-standard systems Earth Central had seen fit to install in the Base made some weird noises at the best of times , but this … . |
| 16 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 17 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 18 | He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers . |
| 19 | At the time when the Home Support Project first collected information about them , the majority got some informal care at least four days a week , ( three-quarters in the Ipswich control group and the Newham action group , two-thirds in the Ipswich action group and just over a half in the Newham control group ) . |
| 20 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 21 | And the atmosphere of hectic unreality made some resolute . |
| 22 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 23 | When a Serbian family in the village of Zakuti sold some of their land to Albanians , the local committee of the Party decided that this was an act of ‘ treachery ’ , and demanded that in future the law banning sales to other nationalities should be strictly enforced . |
| 24 | Showing no signs of reaction to their efforts on Sunday in winning the FA Cup semi-final against Norwich , Sunderland produced some inventive , attacking football with Byrne always involved . |
| 25 | The budget made some of those schemes more attractive and , hopefully , Esops will be adopted to meet expected extra demand . |
| 26 | Although Newsreel made some startlingly good documentaries , shortage of funds was a constant problem . |
| 27 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 28 | Gala won the ruck and Lawson made some ground before belting the ball up the middle of the field . |
| 29 | An inspection found some wards were overcrowded , and some toilets and bathrooms were dirty . |
| 30 | A strengthening in the dollar on reports of turmoil in Panama provided some overall support . |