Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [verb] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 2 | Freed from the need to work quite so hard to survive , man has been able to change some of his long-term habits . |
| 3 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 4 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 5 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 6 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 7 | Since he , Fedorov , was the only one who yet realized the danger , they were spying on him , spreading lies and persecuting him , so it had been necessary to kill some of them . |
| 8 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 9 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 10 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |