Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning .
2 Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay .
3 Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate .
4 Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived .
5 Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua .
6 But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before .
7 For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems .
8 Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 .
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