Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adj] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 2 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 3 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 4 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 5 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 6 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 7 | We 're also , now that we have er erm the , the council 's actually hung , but now we have the , the Labour Group largely in control of the direction of what 's happening in the city er we 've been able to raise some issues that were extremely difficult to raise under the previous Tory administration . |
| 8 | In our discussion so far , we have been concerned to impose some sort of analytic structure on the lumpen mass of context . |
| 9 | We have been able to enjoy some lovely walks , and even to find some new ones which are usually too boggy to attempt . |
| 10 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |
| 11 | This fabulous Autumn continues with a brilliance of colour such as I do n't ever remember , and we have been able to have some lovely walks . |
| 12 | Most of those seasons have involved a struggle against relegation and , while they have been lucky to survive some , this team are good enough to stay up . |
| 13 | In addition , since trade with the Soviet Union is intended to be bilaterally balanced , it has been necessary to find some Yugoslav products to supply to the Soviet Union in return for its petroleum and other raw materials . |
| 14 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 15 | The CAB 's aims state that advice work and exercising a responsible influence on social policy are equal in importance , but it has been hard to persuade some advice workers that social policy work is an important part of their task as advisers . |
| 16 | Since he , Fedorov , was the only one who yet realized the danger , they were spying on him , spreading lies and persecuting him , so it had been necessary to kill some of them . |
| 17 | Virgin says that by expanding aggressively and bucking the trend it 's been able to get some really hard bargains . |