Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] some kind " in BNC.
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1 | Now , you were out driving with your brother and you drove into some kind of storm . |
2 | ‘ I mean … ’ she strove for some kind of coherence ‘ … |
3 | While the reorganisation of the schools in the area acted as some kind of distraction , staff to whom we spoke were confident that committee members maintained their commitment and interest in the library project throughout a difficult period . |
4 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
5 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
6 | But at least a quarter lived in some kind of poverty , even if the degree of their deprivation stopped short of actual destitution . |
7 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
8 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
9 | Black eyeliner on my lower lids , and I looked like some kind of She-devil . |
10 | He looked like some kind of rare orchid , dressed in a Crocodile Dundee hat of soft green suede and miniature matching trousers under a jerkin of pink washed silk lined with purple . |
11 | Dot knew that her father was at a place that Gloria rarely talked to other people about , but kept like some kind of secret . |
12 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
13 | It professes to offer a rational decision procedure for testing the morality of actions , possessed of some kind of objective status , which means that it is irrational to reject it . |
14 | ‘ She overdosed on some kind of speed . ’ |
15 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
16 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |
17 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
18 | It is possible that the abbacy of Ely was vacant from before Æthelred 's death until 1019 , and clear that the abbot next appointed ran into some kind of trouble . |
19 | She felt a tearing pain as if Terry pushed against some kind of obstacle . |
20 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
21 | This reinterpretation sets Keynes ' economics apart from the traditional equilibrium analysis of neo-classical theory which depended on some kind of tâtonnement process ( as described in Chapter 6 ) to ensure that all transactions took place in equilibrium . |