Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] with some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 2 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 3 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 4 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 5 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 6 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 7 | And the factory hours and rugby support which militated against soccer in Leeds had been challenged with some success from 1912 to 1914 . |
| 8 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 9 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 10 | The furniture was clearly old , and had been chosen with some care to fit in with the atmosphere of the hall . |
| 11 | A veteran of the Vietnam war , Abadia was a self-professed " field soldier " , and the architect of the army 's current " seize-hold-consolidate-develop " strategy which , since 1988 , had been used with some effect against the guerrilla insurgents of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 12 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 13 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |