Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | He died very soon afterwards , and this young daughter was taken in by some poor people . |
| 32 | I was thrown out by some irate trendy who kept muttering something about royalties . |
| 33 | The apocalyptic stock-taking was put aside for some future anniversary or crisis . |
| 34 | Any strange or inexplicable behaviour , both in humans and in the natural world , was put down to some supernatural sixth sense . |
| 35 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |
| 36 | Synthesis was achieved only after some years , and only by methods which did not justify expansion to an industrial scale . |
| 37 | All you did was sit round like some old colonel in an Agatha Christie book , bellowing about the country going to the dogs . |
| 38 | But the achievement was always precarious and was maintained only with some difficulty . |
| 39 | ‘ I was sent out on some ridiculous calls at Christmas , ’ said Mr Hunsley . |
| 40 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 41 | It could still be modified for use , provided it was backed up with some new , stronger coercion . |