Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 2 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 3 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 4 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 5 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 6 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 7 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 8 | The first catfish added were some Corydoras — a trio of C. sterbae , a trio of C. haraldschultzi , and three C. adolfoi . |
| 9 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 10 | Diana was treated with kid gloves when all she needed was some sensible advice , a cuddle and a consoling word . |
| 11 | All it needed was some heat . |
| 12 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 13 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 14 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 15 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
| 16 | How could he , even if he did have what he thought was some pretty overwhelming evidence , think she might be anybody 's easy one-nighter ? |
| 17 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 18 | Contrariety will only appear here if it is specified that apples ( or pears ) constituted the whole of the purchase : All I bought were some apples/pears . |
| 19 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 20 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 21 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 22 | There had been some redistribution of income . |
| 23 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 24 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 25 | There had been some hope that the law would distinguish between such deals , part of normal prudent treasury management , and others , essentially speculative , as if the council were in the finance business itself . |
| 26 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 27 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |
| 28 | There had been some appalling bad luck at a place not far from Dunkerque called Furnes . |
| 29 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 30 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |