Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 2 | " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . " |
| 3 | " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street . |
| 4 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 5 | Of course , it was written to some girlfriend or other in England . |
| 6 | It was supplemented to some extent by the druzhinii ( volunteer popular detachments ) , formed in 1959 . |
| 7 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 8 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 9 | The little boy leaned his face to one side as if he was listening to some signal inaudible to mere mortals , and he whispered , ‘ I am going to destroy Malik . |