Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 2 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 3 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 4 | I went , until I sank exhausted on some steps opposite a church . |
| 5 | I cooked and ate and even washed up ; tried to get into some music and resisted the temptation to open a bottle of wine . |
| 6 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 7 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 8 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 9 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 10 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 11 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 12 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner . |
| 14 | He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing . |
| 15 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 16 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 17 | Her husband gave out she 'd perished of some wasting disease , and duly married someone else , less beautiful but more docile , who gave him twelve children . ’ |
| 18 | Once again she felt a rush of warmth for Josh ; clearly he 'd gone to some lengths to cover up for her , and for that she 'd be eternally grateful . |
| 19 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 20 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 21 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 22 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 23 | He seemed to speak with some feeling after his climb . |
| 24 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 25 | In George Mitchell Ltd. v. Finney Lock Seeds Ltd. some farmers contracted to buy from some seed merchants 30lbs of Finney 's ‘ Late Dutch Special ’ cabbage seed . |
| 26 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 27 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 28 | He glanced up as she entered , gave a curt nod and began hunting through some papers with jerky , impatient movements . |
| 29 | She began to sort through some reservation cards . |
| 30 | Locally , people began to talk about some form of recognition for the aircraft and how the town could help its tourist industry into the bargain . |