Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [be] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the Which ? team carried out what I considered to be some very unscientific trials comparing blood , fish and bone fertiliser with Growmore a while ago , I have been suspicious of their methods . |
| 2 | Though now , as Liz recited names of guests , she saw Charles drift away into what she took to be some private realm of financial speculation and morose managerial debate : he started to bite the inside of his lip , as he did when preoccupied , and to drum his fingers on the silvery-yellow brocade of the settee . |
| 3 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 4 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 5 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 6 | There seemed to be some kind of a row going on upstairs . |
| 7 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 8 | In all four cases where there seemed to be some knowledge of the victim before the alleged offences were committed , the cases were contested by alleging the woman 's consent . |
| 9 | Well yes and no , erm , every body that seemed to get involved there seemed to be some strange thing missing |
| 10 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 11 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 12 | I can not remember if he asked if they were British or not , but there seemed to be some doubt as to whose side these bombers were on . |
| 13 | Basically , the latest , and I must n't take any credit , and there seemed to be some credit , Chair . |
| 14 | For rectification to be applicable , there needed to be some prior agreement between the parties , the agreement still needed to be effective when the instrument ( ie the s 54 agreement ) was effected , and the instrument should have failed because of a mistake . |
| 15 | There appeared to be some similarity with the decline of Macmillan 's regime in the early sixties — Cabinet reshuffles ; acute balance of payments ' difficulties , a shaky pound , and high interest rates ; a renewal of strikes on the railways , the docks , and in local government services ; a somewhat disaffected public apprehensive at Britain 's declining power in the world . |
| 16 | However , from the supplementary information collected , by questionnaire , from LEAs a year alter the initial review , there appeared to be some increase in the use of the reported incidence of practical work , and about two-thirds of the completed questionnaires indicated that calculator skills were tested . |
| 17 | The Monteith experiment ( summarized very baldly ) concluded that its experience had been broadly encouraging , that there appeared to be some evidence of correlation of a student 's personal library effectiveness and other measures of educational development , and that ( of course ) more research was necessary . |
| 18 | Looking ahead , Mr Hely Hutchinson said that company plans continued to make cautious assumptions about the general economic outlook , but that there appeared to be some positive indications . |
| 19 | In practice , however , there appeared to be some ambivalence about whether care programming was aimed at people being discharged from hospital or at a wider range of those who use mental health services . |
| 20 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 21 | There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story . |
| 22 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |
| 23 | But then , for women there had to be some exceptions — if one became pregnant , for instance . |
| 24 | There had to be some political acceptance both inside the country and , more importantly , outside , because since the end of the Cold War military take-overs were met increasingly by an immediate freeze of foreign aid . |
| 25 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 26 | There had to be some ‘ element of order or discipline to contrast … with the undisciplined nature of the streets ’ . |
| 27 | There had to be some reason why , some factor strong enough to outweigh all his obvious qualifications . |
| 28 | But dissimilar though they were in appearances , they were alike — very alike — in the way they thought ; precise , analytical , hard-edged , CI5 was a no-nonsense Operation for no-nonsense men , and when the dirty tricks division of the Secret Service was asked to turn its hand to a ‘ favour ’ , there had to be some tough negotiating by all concerned . |
| 29 | But there must be some way — there had to be some way of getting news . |
| 30 | There had to be some enemy skirmishers close by , yet the Prince blithely ignored their threat . |