Example sentences of "was [verb] some [noun] " 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 | I was patched up , had to see the doctor , was given some tablets and that was it . |
| 7 | Pat told of how , when she first started knitting , she was given some patterns . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 10 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 15 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 17 | In this case , the meeting was arranged some time ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | David McNeill , 59 , senior depute education director , will receive a lump sum of at least £74,000 and an annual pension of more than £24,000 in the deal , which was arranged some months ago . |
| 20 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 28 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 29 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 30 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |