Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction .
2 But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform .
3 On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ .
4 Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition .
5 Ariel was n't thinking clearly , her brain was fogged by the din around her and the rage of Sycorax , but the message in the stones summoned her to some action , something to break the silence and the stasis that held her prisoner .
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