Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 2 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 3 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 4 | We could grasp that he was trying to tell us we had arrived at some sort of geological shift , much like the Wallace Discontinuity east of Bali , where two tectonic plates meet and flora and fauna are different on the two opposed sides . |
| 5 | Her mother had reacted to the subject in a predictable way , and had expatiated at some length about the absurdity of taking a dress all the way to Paris and back for the sake of one evening 's amusement , but in the end she had consented to do something about it . |
| 6 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |