Example sentences of "was [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was seeing some woman , like mother said . ’ |
| 2 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 3 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 4 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 5 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 6 | If the home was judged to be satisfactory , the prospective foster parent , or ‘ befriender ’ as the RCM preferred to call them , was given some reading matter to prepare for the day . |
| 7 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 8 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 9 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 10 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 11 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 12 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 13 | In this case , the meeting was arranged some time ago . |
| 14 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 15 | He in the meantime had taken off in his Jungmann and , together with a visiting Jodel , was enjoying some circuit-bashing at Breighton whilst awaiting my return . |
| 16 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 17 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 18 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 19 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 20 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 21 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 22 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 23 | The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn . |
| 24 | An official bulletin was expected some time after the consultation . |
| 25 | Meanwhile there was Keelan Lambert with whom he was developing some hind of tentative relationship . |
| 26 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 27 | He looked as if he was reciting some charm to ward off evil spirits . |
| 28 | Jack took the piece of paper , his gaze not leaving Chrissie 's , as if he was seeking some confirmation that the note was harmless . |
| 29 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 30 | Unfortunately we were not able to meet all the requirements for County support and it was decided some time ago that we would go ahead with an experimental opening without it . |