Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 2 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 3 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 4 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 5 | The case lasted 100 days , required the attendance of many witnesses from abroad , and the defendant 's legal costs alone amounted to some £400,000 . |
| 6 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 7 | ‘ Better lay on some Fernet Branca for the morning , ’ said Dommie . |
| 8 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 9 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I just bumped into some people , who knew some people … . |
| 11 | Models nevertheless existed in some parts of Europe and variation has been explained by the use of forms of the lost-wax or -lead process ( Capelle and Vierck 1975 ; Vierck 1976 ; Arrhenius 1973 ; 1975 ; Dickinson 1982 , pp. 21–2 ) . |
| 12 | Well they normally just packed with some sort of wadding , I du n no . |
| 13 | He just brought along some typing . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 15 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 16 | The the only spot colour that is is what usually aligned in some way . |
| 17 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 18 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |
| 19 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 20 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 21 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 22 | His quick eye also registered with some interest that not one of the ladies present , as far as he could judge , belonged to his mother 's circle . |
| 23 | This problem , also experienced to some extent in Nicaragua , has been particularly acute in Mozambique because of the high levels of illiteracy and shortages of skilled people at all levels , and the legacy of a highly authoritarian colonial school system . |
| 24 | It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End . |
| 25 | It also led to some staff cuts and by the spring of 1989 the leaders of the fusion programmes were anticipating that after five years of no increases to match inflation , Congress would make a twenty million dollar cut in the fusion budget . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 28 | Dr Almahawi also worked for some months at the Unsworth group practice in Westhoughton , near Bolton , Greater Manchester and as a locum at a local hospital , before his death in May 1992 . |
| 29 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 30 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |