Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , they recognise that such ‘ nonstandard dialects are highly structured systems ’ and that ‘ the adult or child who uses these rules must have formed at some level of psychological organisation clear concepts of ‘ tense marker ’ , ‘ verb phrase ’ , ‘ rule ordering ’ , ‘ sentence embedding ’ , ‘ pronoun ’ and many other grammatical categories which are essential parts of any logical system ’ ( ibid. p. 45 ) . |
| 2 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 3 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 4 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 5 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 6 | There was an awkward silence which Maidstone might have broken with some amiable remark to save Sandison 's face . |
| 7 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 8 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
| 9 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 10 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh yes , I think Lesley-Jane could have mixed with some very eminent people . |
| 12 | At Brighton , Dr Schramm speculated that neutrinos might all have been massless until quite late in the story , when the average energy of the neutrinos would have dropped below some threshold , making the three neutrinos develop their masses . |
| 13 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 14 | Will he rediscover some electronic equivalent of the metaphor of the arch , and realize that computers could not have sprung spontaneously into existence but must have originated from some earlier process of cumulative selection ? |
| 15 | His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport . |
| 16 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 17 | A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You must have come across some real characters on this train , ’ I suggest . |
| 19 | Studying the results of the general election of 1974 , the latest held before the publication of its Report , the Commission could have come across some disconcerting figures . |
| 20 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 21 | The council 's pollution control officer , Jim Dickson , said he had heard no reports of oil pollution in that area and suggested the oil may have come from some other source . |
| 22 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 23 | Earth could have done with some , deceptive or not . |
| 24 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 25 | But this dark , draining story , which could have done with some cheerier moments , is a lot more stylish than that . |
| 26 | I think we sho we could have done with some time to look at it really . |
| 27 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 28 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 29 | His appeal must have met with some response because although some hundreds of people did leave for Fort-de-France , many hundreds more sought refuge in St Pierre itself , flocking in from the surrounding countryside , so that on the morning of 8 May , as many as 30,000 people were probably crowding the town . |
| 30 | By the time Waggoner begins writing his book he will have traipsed around some 15 U.S.P.G.A. Tour events in America as well as the Dunhill and Ryder Cups across the pond . |