Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] some " in BNC.
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1 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
2 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
3 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
4 | I do n't know he 's some flu or something , he 's been in bed for four days |
5 | Just say it was some revolutionary group |
6 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
7 | I hope I 'm some good . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
10 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
11 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
12 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
13 | Others believed it was some unknown , but benevolent , cosmic force . |
14 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
15 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
16 | He says it is some of the best land in the country , if not the world . |
17 | ‘ I do not understand you , ’ he rasped , ‘ but coming from you I imagine it is some acid comment . |
18 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
19 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
20 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
21 | No , she jumped on my bed and when she gets on top of you she thinks she 's some little baby . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | You 'd have thought he was some fat cardinal from Rome . |
24 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
25 | ‘ Anyone would think we were some kind of free education service , ’ grumbled Joyce , having disposed of the child and returned to her central eyrie . |
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 | Well I assume they 're some sort of |
29 | I know it 's some time ago , but I do remember , vaguely . |
30 | When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language . |