Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated , there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves . |
2 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
3 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
4 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
5 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
6 | Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions . |
7 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |
8 | Unless it had some other cause entirely … |
9 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |