Example sentences of "have [vb pp] some [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Clint may have felt some pity but he did n't want her back . |
| 32 | Surely you must have had some idea that something was wrong ? |
| 33 | Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’ |
| 34 | I was gon na say , having spent some months or years well . |
| 35 | The boat trip should have provided some respite but it is difficult to see how . |
| 36 | The concept of geographical provinces may have gained some currency because it could be understood as a biological equivalent of the nations of humanity — and the early nineteenth century was a period of strong nationalist feelings . |
| 37 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 38 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 39 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 40 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 41 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 42 | Dave had foreseen some difficulty and had moved back left to get into a better position to assist Steve , just below him . |
| 43 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 44 | The Roller , however , had developed some fault and had been left in the hands of the Grand Hotel 's garage mechanic . |
| 45 | However , delegates acknowledged that the US had given some ground when it announced an " action programme " on the first day of the conference . |
| 46 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 47 | His body had regained some warmth and the sleep had relaxed him . |
| 48 | ‘ We 've done some sums and we reckon that if you use the phone for more than one and half minutes per day it will be more expensive , ’ says a west London cellphone dealer . |
| 49 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 50 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 51 | ‘ Tell Graham you 've made some enquiries and that you 've come up with something . |
| 52 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 53 | By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading . |
| 54 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 55 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 56 | He had murmured some excuse but had been unable to refuse an invitation to supper at the vicarage during the coming week . |
| 57 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 58 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
| 59 | Ellen had bought some melon and coffee on her way to the boatyard and we were eating a late breakfast in Wavebreaker 's cockpit . |
| 60 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |