Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 2 | Kefalov bulged like some fossil brain adorned with innumerable ridges . |
| 3 | Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it . |
| 4 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 5 | Elisa rose in some confusion , wishing to remonstrate with her host about the abundance of his generosity . |
| 6 | Minsky and Papert studied in some detail how elaborate a perceptron must be in order to recognise a particular class . |
| 7 | Blaney 's success in the States lasted for some years and then , in 1910 , the affluent company decided to tour Great Britain . |
| 8 | ‘ We must be giving them quite some headaches in the Pentagon , ’ Hawkins said in some satisfaction . |
| 9 | Richard shrugged with some diffidence . |
| 10 | Therese said with some ferocity , ‘ They think of themselves . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going to have to travel up to London every day of the week , ’ Meredith said with some regret . |
| 12 | He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’ |
| 13 | England suffered to some extent from a similar gulf between her real power and her ceremonial status during the Interregnum of 1649 – 60 , a gulf in this case deepened by the widespread hostility aroused by the execution of Charles I. For several years the standing of the representatives abroad of the various Commonwealth governments was seriously weakened by the disappearance of the monarchy : in 1654 , for example , the Danish ambassador in Sweden claimed precedence over his English equivalent since the latter was acting for Cromwell , a mere protector , not for an anointed king . |
| 14 | Abrams himself , North remarked with some heat , did not need to ask ; he knew ; but at a certain point , knowledge became uncomfortable . |
| 15 | Again Hugh thought for some time . |
| 16 | Juliet Kellner spoke to some people who pay less than they might — or none at all — and found out how they salve their consciences . |
| 17 | As a young man , Sewell appeared to some observers to be eccentric and reserved , but at the same time he was looked upon as a steady , attentive and exemplary apprentice . |
| 18 | Theodore pointed to some entries , flipped over several pages and indicated several more . |
| 19 | After early May , Mrs Noble relented to some extent . |
| 20 | Matadial referred in some detail in her evidence to five or six occasions between October 1986 and the end of the year when she had discussed with the defendant his frequent beating and threatening of Paulette . |
| 21 | Similarly , in their life history studies of secondary teachers , Sikes , Measor and Woods came across some subject teachers who felt distinctly uncomfortable with the approaches they were required to adopt in other subject areas : |
| 22 | The railways were , as Charles Dickens noted with some distaste , ubiquitous : |
| 23 | When Connor threw on some clothes and left the Watermen at a run , in search of a doctor , he left his mother to hold Ruth 's hand and try to comfort her . |
| 24 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | Against this background Baldwin in November felt under some pressure from his backbenches , particularly as his speech had been preceded by a denunciation , at once contrived and powerful , from Churchill . |
| 26 | Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas . |
| 27 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 28 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 29 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 30 | Tom pointed to some trees to the right of it . |