Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was some " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 2 | She gave him a sullen glare and said in a very distant way did he know there was some awful peasant trespassing round the lake ? |
| 3 | Now , he said , if there 's any question of doubt , he 'll seal it and then the receiver would know there was some question of doubt , and he would seal back the reply . |
| 4 | Observers say there was some overlap between his role and that of Hargrave and Wastnage . |
| 5 | And I say there was some sort of a an embarrassment I can only call it |
| 6 | Do you know I was thinking this the other day , do you think , say there was some girl like , let's just take Flick no , somebody , who do , who do , who do the people think 's real , who do the blokes always , yeah Flick they think is a real frump do n't they ? |
| 7 | Just say it was some revolutionary group |
| 8 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 9 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 10 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 11 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 12 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 13 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 14 | Your sister says there was some game you played with Terry Place . |
| 15 | the computer says there was some and there is n't any . |
| 16 | When the signal dropped there was some initial wheelspin ( on the green rock ) , but a good head of steam came in no time . |
| 17 | But Carl had said there was some problems there |
| 18 | Others believed it was some unknown , but benevolent , cosmic force . |
| 19 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 20 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |
| 21 | picking up the staff costs there was some concern about putting that in there because we were awaiting the result of the T S G settlement . |
| 22 | I 've been told there was some baths in there as well |
| 23 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 24 | You 'd have thought he was some fat cardinal from Rome . |
| 25 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 26 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Where are you taking me ? ’ she demanded , wishing there was some way she could force an answer out of him . |
| 29 | She moistened her lips , wishing there was some way she could avoid his shrewd gaze , but his hands caught at her arms as she tried to turn away . |
| 30 | ‘ I know there was some trouble backstage last night , ’ he said . |