Example sentences of "was [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the Partnership Act was amended some 25years ago , the maximum number in a partnership was limited to 20 . |
| 2 | ‘ He was seeing some woman , like mother said . ’ |
| 3 | The remains have always been visible , even though the temple was erected some 2,500 years ago . |
| 4 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 5 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 6 | She was producing some 100,000 rifles a month ; many more were received from her allies ; and hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained . |
| 7 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 10 | No , I was using some , I was washing with a mouthwash in the morning . |
| 11 | Over in the Mid-West , another famous company was using some very minimalist machines . |
| 12 | Over in the Mid-West , another famous company was using some very minimalist machines . |
| 13 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 18 | Pat told of how , when she first started knitting , she was given some patterns . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 21 | I was patched up , had to see the doctor , was given some tablets and that was it . |
| 22 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 23 | It was Easter when Wallis Simpson was given some ‘ awfully nice stones ’ whilst on holiday with the Prince of Wales in 1931 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was given some repulsive food which , by the end of the second day , I trained myself to eat . |
| 26 | Visitors to Harry Short 's yard in Blaworth , which was situated some five miles from the maisonette in Doncaster where he was born , were often taken aback , shocked even , by what they found . |
| 27 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh well , you see , the truth of the matter is that dragons have never existed as you ( and , until I was poisoned some three months ago , I ) understand existence . |
| 29 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 30 | He was nursing some secret or other … |