Example sentences of "[vb past] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 2 | I stopped at some lights on the East side . |
| 3 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
| 4 | He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’ |
| 5 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 6 | We arrived at some barracks , which I was told were occupied by Austrian soldiers . |
| 7 | Kruk ( 1989 ) referring to non-custodial fathers in divorce , claims that those who arrived at some level of resolution of their grief were those who were in fact able to maintain regular contact with their child . |
| 8 | It was a very disturbing erm letter that that arrived at some flats , that was from Birmingham . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 10 | Brenda Thompson talked at some length about her daughter , her friend who was poorly and her ever so humble beginnings . |
| 11 | While Sir Henry worked at some papers , I walked to the post office . |
| 12 | Some document that erm was produced and lost at some point or . |
| 13 | Davout waved at some papers on his desk . |
| 14 | In 1970 52 per cent of the population listened at some point during the day , but only 43 per cent in 1986 . |
| 15 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 16 | He chose the blackjack from a selection on a velvet tray , and then he looked at some handcuffs — real ones , this time , but heavier than regulation and suggestive of overkill . |
| 17 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 18 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 19 | I looked at some pictures of Rhonda Fleming . |
| 20 | Last month saw the start of a three-part series by Patricia Spallone on genetic engineering ( GE ) , which looked at some applications on plants , bacteria , viruses and animals and the need for feminists to put biotechnology , the industrialisation of life on the political agenda . |
| 21 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 22 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 23 | Now they were feeling the need to order quite a large amount of food for ‘ skinnys ’ , especially ones whom possessed at some point in time the ‘ narrow cup ’ . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman spoke at some length about his desire for a totally independent inspectorate . |
| 25 | When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence . |
| 26 | He discussed at some length the problems that arise over trying to define ideas such as ‘ compulsion ’ , and in estimating the degree of severity of pressure that could make an action not voluntary . |
| 27 | Chairman , can we , you know , you recall we discussed at some length at the P A G. |
| 28 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 29 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 30 | He then expanded at some length on this theme . |