Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I also put in some choices that only SF readers were likely to recognise : Hugo Gernsback ( an early pulp-publisher ) , Clifford Simak ( a prolific SF writer ) , and Stanislaw Lem ( the foremost Polish SF author ) . |
| 32 | Sophia also reflected with some satisfaction on the way she had spoken about Rupert-'only Rupert Stonebird' , who ‘ did n't seem to matter ’ . |
| 33 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 34 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 35 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 36 | Nor , for once , did he enclose his curriculum vitae — which he now contemplated with some discomfort . |
| 37 | For whatever reason , they all now sat in some dumbness at Sir Alexander Gordon 's table , and it is the only meal so far recorded by Boswell in which he has no conversation to report , nor argument , nor words of Johnson . |
| 38 | They even parachuted in some agents . |
| 39 | Exposure to 2°C caused drastic changes to the growth pattern and even resulted in some leaves failing to emerge . |
| 40 | He then expanded at some length on this theme . |
| 41 | She then talked to some pig experts and compiled the following pig compendium . |
| 42 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 43 | Josie disappeared for a couple of minutes and then reappeared with some pillows and a duvet . |
| 44 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 45 | There is , of course , always a danger that , in industries with some monopoly power , an element of competition , far from being beneficial , will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business , and this certainly happened in some areas . |
| 46 | A sense of injustice therefore existed in some schools which , for whatever reasons , were not among the chosen few . |
| 47 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 48 | Although he suppressed tribal dissent ruthlessly , he subsequently attempted -with some generosity — to incorporate representatives of minority tribes into the governance of the state . |