Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 2 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 3 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 4 | Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner . |
| 5 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 6 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 7 | this would defeat the legitimate expectations of those who had acted in some way in reliance on the old authority ; or |
| 8 | But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got . |
| 9 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 10 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
| 11 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
| 12 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |