Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agatha giggled as if Corbett had posed some riddle . |
| 2 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 3 | Before making the offer Branson had done some homework . |
| 4 | Ellen had bought some melon and coffee on her way to the boatyard and we were eating a late breakfast in Wavebreaker 's cockpit . |
| 5 | In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts . |
| 6 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 7 | While the discussions of partnership in validation were taking place in the late 1970s , therefore , the CNAA had had some decade and a half of validation experience , but the rapid expansion of subject areas and such relatively recent developments as the DipHE and modular courses , and the uncertainties surrounding public sector higher education in a swiftly changing economic climate , all helped to strengthen the view that the Council should not move too rapidly into a higher gear of change . |
| 8 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 9 | Mrs Diggory had made some effort , and the little room was at least warm from a small fire in the grate , and there was a down coverlet on the narrow cot bed . |
| 10 | There was no way of avoiding this , and since , after all , Willis had requested some kind of discussion of his own case , he scrupulously collected opinions . |
| 11 | But even before the establishment of the Karmal regime the USSR had acquired some control over the major military air base at Bagram near Kabul ; this was the base Soviet troops were initially airlifted into at the end of 1979 . |
| 12 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 13 | He accepted that the JMU had had some teething problems , but pointed out that the audit monitoring process was still in its early days ; it was improving and would continue to improve with experience . |
| 14 | After Katharine had experienced some problems with the half-pass , Jennie suggested that Katharine try some travers , which would help to improve the half-pass . |
| 15 | It was further established that Bacon had purchased some arsenic from a shop in Red Lion Square only days before , allegedly to kill rats . |
| 16 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 17 | Kalchu had brewed some millet beer months ago to ferment out ready for today and it was sweet and clear and very strong . |
| 18 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 19 | It is important not to interpret the phrase that Jesus had felt some power go out of him as though he were some sort of ‘ divine energy source ’ of healing . |
| 20 | Local councils in the United Kingdom had lost some £80,000,000 as a result of the BCCI closure . |
| 21 | Simon Franks told one of the DCs that Nicola had mentioned some MP in the West Midlands . |
| 22 | Mrs Polgar had offered some refreshments ; saucissons , gherkins , and bread and coffee . |
| 23 | Although Bush had imposed some sanctions immediately following the massacre [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , he had subsequently faced a great deal of congressional criticism for his " soft " China policy [ see p. 37341 ] . |
| 24 | Antonia had invited some boys . |
| 25 | Some men had books which dealt with events in which Zuwaya had played some part , and others had seen them . |
| 26 | Mary had found some oil of citronella in an old-fashioned medicine chest in the Deathbed Room and they rubbed it on themselves for good measure . |
| 27 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 28 | But Sara had set some spark of aggression alight in him . |
| 29 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 30 | There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster . |