Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 2 | That got some cheap laughs . |
| 3 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 4 | That occurred some 30 years earlier when the San Diego Open Tournament in California made headline news . |
| 5 | This assuaged some of the fears expressed by managers and engineers in the existing supply undertakings about possible over-centralisation of power in a nationalised undertaking . |
| 6 | Ha face was pale , her eyes dark-rimmed , and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun 's silly chatter . |
| 7 | The British made some bad decisions , as did the Irishman Sean Lester . |
| 8 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 9 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 10 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 11 | This led some to speak of a ‘ natural religion ’ implanted in the human heart and necessary to human well-being . |
| 12 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 13 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |
| 14 | Another described some of the difficulties that can emerge in an arts course , and suggested that a core-plus-extension model might work best : |
| 15 | Well this provided some very interesting information I think , because I was very surprised the degree to which men were involved in decisions about what to put in the home and had very strong opinions about quite small details of colour and this kind of thing as to what went into the home . |
| 16 | This involved some form of lexical checking . |
| 17 | In the first trial year the Project material was used by ten schools , and in its improved form was used the following year by eleven schools ; and in most cases this involved some 120 children at a time . |
| 18 | This occurred some 40 days after he bought the car . |
| 19 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 20 | This occasioned some surprise . |
| 21 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 22 | This received some support from the statistics , as far as Conservatives are concerned ; the total number of ministerial appearances on regional news and weekly programmes in the period analysed by Blumler was 124 , while Conservative back-benchers appeared 104 times . |
| 23 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 24 | This caused some alarm in the British timber trade . |
| 25 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 26 | Although this caused some small problem because the manager had gone home and taken his office key with him , a duplicate was soon found and Duncan let into the sparse office . |
| 27 | This caused some of the other children to titter , quickly putting their hands over their mouths to stifle the sound . |
| 28 | This caused some wrangling which delayed the continuation of the pursuit , and ended in von Keller conceding that he would divide the spoils in a safe place to ensure safe division . |
| 29 | This caused some comment among the Americans . |
| 30 | This caused some puzzlement . |