Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 2 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 3 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 4 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 5 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 6 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 7 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 8 | Hilary Burden asked for some expert views — and , overleaf , we ask your opinion |
| 9 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 10 | Father asked for some volunteers to help Nicky collect at the back of the Church , he has already arranged this himself . |
| 11 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 12 | The bank asked for some security for this amount and the defendant promised by letter to charge certain goods and to pay the proceeds thereof to the bank against the overdraft . |
| 13 | Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it . |
| 14 | Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne . |
| 15 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 16 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 17 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 18 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 19 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 20 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 21 | He stands in the hall , shaking his head , as if he himself is a Rottweiler that crashed through some glass . |
| 22 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 23 | President 's rule was imposed in Meghalaya on Oct. 11 , ending a two-month crisis which erupted after some deputies switched loyalties and precipitated a power struggle between the ruling Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party ( MUPP ) and the Congress ( I ) -backed United Meghalaya Parliamentary Forum ( UMPF ) . |
| 24 | When we came to the moat , we stopped near some trees and the six men hid there with the horses . |
| 25 | On 3 September 1939 he still had no criminal record , though his name occurred with some frequency in the secret reports of the Special Branch and M15 . |
| 26 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 27 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 28 | The commodities boom had increased many less developed countries ' ( LDC ) export earnings , and imports rose with some lag . |
| 29 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 30 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |