Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
2 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
3 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
4 | Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury . |
5 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
6 | I 've been and watched and contributed to some degree , erm or at least in listening to the reports of governors at the school , erm , in the allocation of some of their contracts , which of course include some being let under L M S and some being let under G M S , with regard to building and cleaning , they were very disappointed with the presentation that the D S O gave , and even though the D S O was eight thousand pounds less than the competing bidder , O C S , they gave the contract to O C S , and a report has had to be made to the district auditor to give their reasons . |
7 | Lambert touched down shakily , got lost and drove into some bog where his wheels stuck fast , the nose buried itself , and the tail reared high like a flag on a steeple . |
8 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
9 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
10 | So er and ripped off some letters blah blah blah , so that 's ongoing , you know it 's going to be replaced and the er people who did it admitted liability and so forth . |
11 | The other girls agreed , so Anne got into the boat and hid under some coats . |
12 | and hid behind some rocks |
13 | She turned from the counter and glanced through some boxes , then said , ‘ I 'm afraid we 've only got fifty of the large size , sir . |
14 | The person who wants to explore , keep on the move and typified by some form of touring holiday . |
15 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
16 | Exchange traded futures have their origins in the markets for agricultural products , and existed in some form already in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam and in Osaka . |
17 | Clarissa closed hers quickly and scrambled into some clothes . |
18 | Rotating shafts buried in the walls transmitted the energy from the central machinery to the faces , and rumbled in some places , squeaked in others , and leaked oil ubiquitously . |
19 | Some document that erm was produced and lost at some point or . |
20 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
21 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
22 | She inhaled the aroma of his thick black coffee and looked with some doubt at her murky cup of tea . |
23 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
24 | ‘ He went to Sam 's boatyard and fell through some floorboards and was nearly drowned … |
25 | He lost his balance and fell against some railings . |
26 | The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar and lay with some stranger … after sexual union has made the woman holy in the goddess ' sight , she returns home … |
27 | There can be little doubt that Hayward had come to rely upon him over that period , and felt in some sense that he had been abandoned . |
28 | he dealt with the principles involved and went into some detail of the features of different engine designs . |
29 | He had spoken to Paul Guillaume , an ambitious and knowledgeable young dealer , about Modigliani and went to some trouble to arrange an introduction . |
30 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |