Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village was , as she had thought , a dump , where time was whittled away in some vintage manner . |
| 2 | John Regis , my arch rival at 200 metres , was walking home with some friends late one night when they were attacked by some white men who were obviously extremely drunk . |
| 3 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 4 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 5 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 6 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 7 | There was about her something distant and mysterious , Cadfael thought , as if a part of her being was charmed away into some private and pleasant place , even while her blue eyes dwelt upon her husband and his friend with sharp intelligence , following the argument back and forth with a kind of indulgent and amused affection , appropriate to a matriarch watching her children . |
| 8 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 9 | Rebecca was sifting restlessly through some of the papers in her in tray , and he went over to her . |
| 10 | Is that it , you were going really well then , I was looking forward to some more about that actually ? |
| 11 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 12 | For we find very similar results in those regions where the attempt to create the conditions of capitalist agriculture was made not by some global edict abolishing the economy of coercion , but by the more general process of imposing the law of bourgeois liberalism : transforming all landed property into individual property and turning land into a freely saleable commodity like anything else . |
| 13 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 14 | It was marred only by some Scandinavian delegates protesting human rights abuses during the opening ceremony . |
| 15 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 16 | Sister Murphy was needed again for some cases of enteritis . |
| 17 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 18 | ’ He , too , was drowned out by some Labour jeering . |
| 19 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 20 | Well she was staying overnight at some wee girl 's house and I 'd say well that 's alright as long as you 're as long as , you know , that know the wee girl 's mother maybe , she 's a daughter a wee bit older than Lindsey herself who had the , but no this mother see she was divorced and going with these men and let her daughter stay out to half eleven , and Lindsey was , n was n't in her house till half eleven . |
| 21 | The transformation of postwar industrial cities was driven not by some abstract historical force but by a combination of private investment decision and state action . |
| 22 | Cytomegalovirus infection was found contemporaneously at some site in the body in six individuals ( ampullary biopsy in three , intestinal biopsy in five , and in the retina of one patient ) . |
| 23 | The text was interrupted successively by some text running sideways , a graph depicting escalating mineral water sales , the number ‘ 6 ’ and a table of five useless gadgets . |
| 24 | The rationale for this was set out at some length : |
| 25 | The notion that SCOTVEC could validate private centres such as industrial training centres or trade associations to deliver National Certificate modules was greeted originally with some opposition from the teachers ' unions . |
| 26 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 27 | But Marion was staring down into some bleak abyss . |
| 28 | She was carrying on with some lawyer . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They thought I would n't be quite so embarrassed if my bra was whipped off by some poor old geezer who was past it . |
| 30 | But Stone Bassett bit the dust , the case against the development was taken up by some of the highest paid planners in the land and sounded a massive victory for conservationists . |