Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 2 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 3 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 4 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 5 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 6 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 7 | I went , until I sank exhausted on some steps opposite a church . |
| 8 | I cooked and ate and even washed up ; tried to get into some music and resisted the temptation to open a bottle of wine . |
| 9 | The abandoned house they bought needs repairs , but the agency helped to pay for some of the necessary work . |
| 10 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 11 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 12 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 13 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 14 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 15 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 16 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 17 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner . |
| 19 | He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing . |
| 20 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 21 | I seemed possessed of some extraordinary mad courage . |
| 22 | The atmosphere between them seemed to vibrate with some invisible electricity . |
| 23 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 24 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 25 | He 'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him . |
| 26 | Then the boat seemed to bump against some solid object , making the contents of the kitchen cupboards rattle . |
| 27 | Her husband gave out she 'd perished of some wasting disease , and duly married someone else , less beautiful but more docile , who gave him twelve children . ’ |
| 28 | Once again she felt a rush of warmth for Josh ; clearly he 'd gone to some lengths to cover up for her , and for that she 'd be eternally grateful . |
| 29 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 30 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |