Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since sudden death can occur in this group of patients , the duration of the ventricular arrhythmia must become prolonged in some cases and can evolve into ventricular fibrillation . |
| 2 | Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on . |
| 3 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 4 | His personal effects were valued at less than £1,000 , but the family must have lived in some style , since one of the witnesses to the will was the resident coachman . |
| 5 | His appeal must have met with some response because although some hundreds of people did leave for Fort-de-France , many hundreds more sought refuge in St Pierre itself , flocking in from the surrounding countryside , so that on the morning of 8 May , as many as 30,000 people were probably crowding the town . |
| 6 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 7 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 8 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 9 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 10 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
| 11 | His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport . |
| 12 | A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’ |
| 13 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 14 | The network of shires and hundreds brought royal government to all landowners of any substance , and must have acted as some kind of counter-weight to the influence of local lords and feelings of local separatism . |
| 15 | She had smelly white plastic miniskirts with heavy steel chain belts that must have belonged to some fetishist , and acrylic ribbed halter-tops clinging to her almost concave tits . |
| 16 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 17 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 18 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 19 | I think we sho we could have done with some time to look at it really . |
| 20 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 21 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 22 | I was going to wear myself out , then I really would faint and I 'd get found by some kind little old lady who 'd call an ambulance and … |
| 23 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 24 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 25 | The argument of this chapter has been to suggest that a distinctive mode of rationality , which is postmodernist in its opposition to the principles of the Weberian/Fordist organization pattern , may have emerged in some aspects of post-war Japan . |
| 26 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 27 | In eighteenth-century England , for example , the practical sciences may have appealed to some dissenters because they were denied access to other professions . |
| 28 | It may have occurred to some readers already . |
| 29 | If everything was hunky dory on planet pop , Suede and the Manics would n't need to worship Bowie and Lydon , Bjorn Again would have aborted in some outback bar down under and Denim simply would n't exist . |
| 30 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |