Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , moving between this strange abode and Jack 's house in Chelsea , felt as if , wanting to be needed by everyone , he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger . |
| 2 | By 1940 at least sixty-eight local authorities were already using some sort of intelligence test ; about half these also used standardised attainment tests . |
| 3 | Its report published in July last year , The Cost of Care in Hostels , concluded : ‘ Even hostels offering relatively low care were still offering some care , and had to spend more than could be explained simply in terms of the costs of accommodation . ’ |
| 4 | As well as the Coronation , the crowds lining the rain-soaked streets of London , and at street parties and gathered round the spate of new television sets the Coronation had sparked , were also celebrating some news from the other side of the world . |
| 5 | If the Labour party were then to show some affection for devolution in Wales , perhaps the same principle would apply to an even more eminent right hon. Gentleman . |
| 6 | The idea was basically to produce some kind of semi-independent Greece . |
| 7 | But when he spoke again it was only to express some anxiety about the conduct of the services while he was away . |
| 8 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 9 | She was just boiling some water when the door opened and Julius walked in . |
| 10 | It was one of the busy nights , a Friday , most likely , and he was just spooning some number 42 into a white take-out carton when a voice from behind him whispered , ‘ Give me a bit of chicken , mister . |
| 11 | He was always finding some excuse to hold that wretched girl . |
| 12 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 13 | ( c. 1228–1277 ) , administrator , was probably born some time before 1228 in the village of Boreham in Essex and was the son of Ralph , son of William of Boreham , minor landowner . |
| 14 | He was probably meeting some woman tonight , and obviously taking her somewhere glamorous . |
| 15 | The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony . |
| 16 | Now , the very word ‘ about ’ clearly warns us that the inscription was probably added some time after the event , but all the available evidence does point toward its veracity . |
| 17 | The seance was held and Mr Hayden was later shown some photographs and asked if he could recognise any of the people . |
| 18 | At Lough Carra , most of the fish are being taken on the dap , but wetfly was also producing some sport for Jim Stafford , who landed a nice brace at 4lb 8ozs . |
| 19 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 20 | He was also publishing some poetry in the ‘ little magazines ’ , such as ‘ Had We Nothing To Prove ’ , ‘ The Fly ’ , ‘ To Be Mentioned At Funerals ’ , and ‘ Just The Worst Time ’ . |
| 21 | In those days they were very good at Leeds , I got a nice letter back and was also sent some programmes and stuff . |
| 22 | ‘ Publicly I said that I did n't think it was possible , but that was mainly to take some pressure off me . |
| 23 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 24 | Just before Christmas I was intrigued to get a letter in careful dictionary English from Kenya , saying that the sender had read my book and was now putting some kit together along the lines I had suggested . |
| 25 | I was simply given some down to earth instruction on techniques . |
| 26 | The point was well made some years ago by Hugh Maguire , a veteran of the English orchestral scene and an evident admirer or Karajan , when he said : ‘ He is too strong , too powerful , too rich — too much outside the general run . |
| 27 | I was there to give some talks on motivation and slimming and had a stand displaying my books . |
| 28 | I was there to take some photographs of Waugh and he welcomed me very heartily with a firm handshake and a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 29 | He sensed that his father was silently demanding some expression of regret , but whenever he glanced at his grim , unsmiling face he found it impossible to summon an apology to his lips . |
| 30 | One was dearly asking some favour on behalf of a client : bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |