Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 2 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 3 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 4 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |
| 5 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
| 6 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 7 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 8 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 9 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 10 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 11 | There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation . |
| 12 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 13 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |
| 14 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 15 | Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense . |
| 16 | The general thinking was that Mr Flood had seen some kind of vision , but was not ready yet to reveal it to the town . |
| 17 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 18 | Perhaps , though , he might stroll out in the direction of the church hall , to see if people were coming out , then he would feel that he had made some kind of an effort . |
| 19 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 20 | Dad had had some kind of religious crisis later , but I did n't know too much about that . |
| 21 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 22 | There was no way of avoiding this , and since , after all , Willis had requested some kind of discussion of his own case , he scrupulously collected opinions . |
| 23 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 24 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 25 | He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble . |
| 26 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 27 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |