Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 9 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |
| 10 | I also put in some choices that only SF readers were likely to recognise : Hugo Gernsback ( an early pulp-publisher ) , Clifford Simak ( a prolific SF writer ) , and Stanislaw Lem ( the foremost Polish SF author ) . |
| 11 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 12 | They even parachuted in some agents . |
| 13 | Exposure to 2°C caused drastic changes to the growth pattern and even resulted in some leaves failing to emerge . |
| 14 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 15 | Josie disappeared for a couple of minutes and then reappeared with some pillows and a duvet . |
| 16 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 17 | There is , of course , always a danger that , in industries with some monopoly power , an element of competition , far from being beneficial , will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business , and this certainly happened in some areas . |
| 18 | A sense of injustice therefore existed in some schools which , for whatever reasons , were not among the chosen few . |
| 19 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |