Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 2 | One morning of diagonal sleet and frozen puddles we were unloading some Jewish families at a rude hamlet on the River Bug . |
| 3 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 4 | They rapidly erected the Clifton ironworks near Glasgow and early in the following year were producing some 600 tons of finished malleable iron products per month . |
| 5 | To pursue the question put by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , the Secretary of State will be aware that the long lead orders for the four Trident submarines were placed some time ago and that construction is quite well advanced . |
| 6 | We were given some opportunity to explore this when making three visits to police stations in West Belfast , although the data on community policing are unsatisfactory because of the limited number of these contacts and the absence of supportive observational material . |
| 7 | The key to this was that they all began life with a strong philosophical commitment to development and were given some of the new , additional staff needed in order to give life to this philosophy . |
| 8 | There were a lot of complicated lifts , and Hayden found some moments of the opening duet highly erotic ; the witches and other apparitions were given some ghoulishly eccentric movements . |
| 9 | The Slovenes were given some support from Croatia , but the majority of the republics and provinces were unwilling to return to the old system . |
| 10 | Educated Africans , he saw , would only fully accept European rule if they were given some access to the central institutions of government . |
| 11 | Giles 's proposal to make them subservient to government agents was rejected , but they were given some responsibility for supervising the work of both the regular police and the headmen , who were now designated the ‘ rural police ’ . |
| 12 | Through this facility , since ‘ base ’ might suggest the steady jobs associated with most camps behind a front line , men of 19 units were given some training in Independent Company 's skills . |
| 13 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 14 | As an aid in their redesign , the executives were given some handouts that described a different set of behaviours . |
| 15 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 16 | As the camp they were given some Turkish slippers and ragged pieces of uniform to wear . |
| 17 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 18 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 19 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 20 | Iceland has a huge population of eider and we were to see some large flocks further north . |
| 21 | Some way away a couple of humans were using some sort of machines to load boxes into a hole in the side of the plane . |
| 22 | The majority of women aged 35 and over were using some form of birth control . |
| 23 | A group of children were using some workcards designed by the teacher to give them experience of working independently and helping one another over difficulties . |
| 24 | The chalk hills to the north of the Bay and the limestone plateau to the south were formed some 25 million years ago , the result of unimaginable mountain-building pressure which also raised the Alps . |
| 25 | would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment . |
| 26 | ‘ When the Templars were dissolved some two hundred years ago , some escaped , assumed other identities , married and settled down . |
| 27 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 28 | In the 1820s Constable and Turner were painting some of their most innovative pictures . |
| 29 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 30 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |