Example sentences of "was some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 2 | True , there was some fragmentation of members on class issues . |
| 3 | There was some extension of the pietistic ideal . |
| 4 | Marcus said it was some idiot wanting the Water Company . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There was some trouble at the end of last year about a little gipsy child who died from a burst appendix . |
| 6 | On one occasion a very experienced pilot in a Nimbus 2 was starting on a car launch when it swung off the runway into a K8 which was some distance ahead . |
| 7 | Well , it was n't an oak-beamed house in the hills , but it was some way out of the city . |
| 8 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 9 | Was some bastard getting at Colm because his father was English ? |
| 10 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 11 | As Pearl shares raced ahead there was some determined buying of merchant banks , particularly Morgan Grenfell . |
| 12 | There was some ‘ spoon-feeding ’ in lectures , seminars and practical work , lecturers failed to identify or correct poor work , and assessment placed too much emphasis on the ability to recall factual information . |
| 13 | They called it smoked salmon and I immediately concluded it was some sort of rich man 's herring . |
| 14 | That exhilarating game , which Llanelli won 27-21 , attracted 20,000 to Stradey even though the official limit was some 5,000 fewer . |
| 15 | For the successful jockey , Dean McKeown , it was some compensation for the dismal performance of 2,000 Guineas hope Message Pad on Friday . |
| 16 | And there was some nerveless relief pitching from Dennis Eckersley to secure the final out on Sunday after the Blue Jays had briefly rekindled hopes of a miracle by reducing the deficit to 4-3 with two runs in the ninth inning of game five . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , there was some normality . |
| 18 | There was some good news from the US television station Fox Broadcasting , where advertising revenue is up by 150 per cent , and from sales of Sky receiving dishes . |
| 19 | Though there was some selling yesterday , volume was not heavy . |
| 20 | And he thought there was some chemistry between her and Lord Carrington ? |
| 21 | A right-wing paper made Alliance identifiers 3 per cent less favourable to Kinnock and 8 per cent more favourable to Thatcher by the end of the campaign , and once again there was some evidence of a trend . |
| 22 | At the same time there was some evidence that those who had a more general interest in politics , as distinct from those who found the campaign interesting ( a distinction we have already found significant in other contexts ) , were likely to record lower levels of total approval . |
| 23 | There was some shooting and a number of people lay dead on the church steps . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 25 | Indeed , in 1978 there was some evidence that the British security forces , coupled with divisions amongst the Provisionals , were swinging the balance away from the IRA . |
| 26 | There was some pressure for a Bill of Rights , notably from the ‘ Charter 88 ’ group . |
| 27 | All through this conversation he had the impression that Frank no longer sneered ; and as he went back to Liverpool he was sure that he was more tolerant and sympathetic and ‘ was willing to grant that there was some sense in some of the things which I longed for him to share ’ . |
| 28 | There was some cheering . |
| 29 | And so as not to hurt anyone inadvertently uncle Eugenio waited until the apostle was some way from the rest of the crowd . |
| 30 | The decision top management took has been vindicated , but there was some criticism , particularly from City analysts , at the time it was taken . |