Example sentences of "[vb pp] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her .
2 He had heard some talk about an accident .
3 The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped .
4 The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago .
5 The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 .
6 By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century .
7 They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise !
8 Alex had spilled some juice on the table top and was drawing his finger through the orange puddle with enjoyment ; Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast .
9 Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’
10 If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun .
11 polytechnics , Strathclyde had already developed some work in the fields of modern literature and linguistics , and wished to expand research and teaching within other areas of contemporary cultural study .
12 The second child has already developed some idea of what rust is and is not .
13 You will by now have developed some facility with handling batches of data , summarizing features of their distributions , and investigating relationships between variables .
14 We 've also developed some sense of patterns of timing — a sense of what a typical week and a typical term might look like for the learner .
15 Of the 10 patients with indeterminate colitis — three developed pelvic sepsis one because of a leak from the pouch and six have developed some form of pouch related fistula ( p=0.01 v ulcerative colitis group ) .
16 In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) .
17 Having developed some interest on the basis of a necessarily brief advertisement a potential candidate can apply for further written details which should contain a comprehensive description of the job , the task and skill content , the responsibilities , the salary and the details of the organisation including its history and anticipated future , and an application form .
18 Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether .
19 Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 .
20 Most clergy have received some instruction in voice production and singing during their theological training .
21 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
22 Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket .
23 So by that weekend of 18–19 March Pons knew that not only was the DOE happy to fund the proposed research programme , but that the preliminary note had now received some measure of approval , which gave confidence in the fusion hypothesis .
24 Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis .
25 A further point which suggests that these provisions , if not actually written in his reign , were in any event written not long after his death is the fact that the medrese attached to the mosque of Bayezid II in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 and of higher rank than the Sahn , would almost certainly have received some mention in any such provisions written subsequent to that date .
26 Countersigning officers should have received some training in JAR interviewing and counselling skills .
27 The situation was considerably better among Baptists where half the ministers had received some form of higher education .
28 A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview .
29 The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education .
30 Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia .
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