Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 2 | Lancashire 's Pakistani pace bowler Wasim Akram , for example had been found to generate some 15 to 20 mph from his wrist action alone . |
| 3 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 4 | Also , apparently , Matron had been overheard making some indelicate comment to one of the cleaners about the state of Harding 's sheets . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1940 the War Office had been persuaded to put some of these ideas into practice and a number of companies were raised to act independently in guerrilla roles . |