Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] [adv] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 2 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 3 | The main level which ran along the southern branch of the vein had been brought in some 210 fathoms from the entrance . |
| 4 | On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced . |
| 5 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 6 | A prestigious teaching post at Winchester had been terminated abruptly some years before , and Hugo had failed to hold another since . |