Example sentences of "it was some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcus said it was some idiot wanting the Water Company . ’ |
| 2 | Well , it was n't an oak-beamed house in the hills , but it was some way out of the city . |
| 3 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 4 | They called it smoked salmon and I immediately concluded it was some sort of rich man 's herring . |
| 5 | For the successful jockey , Dean McKeown , it was some compensation for the dismal performance of 2,000 Guineas hope Message Pad on Friday . |
| 6 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 7 | The bridge was to be built across the river at Lauenburg , and at that point it was some two hundred and thirty metres wide , which would require a minimum of thirty-two rigs to complete . |
| 8 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 9 | It was some time after making his first confession that he bumped into a pupil in Addison 's Walk . |
| 10 | It was some young person in the coffin — son or daughter snatched prematurely . |
| 11 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 12 | It was some sort of animal . |
| 13 | He had said that he was ‘ married with one son ’ on his book jacket , too , as if it was some unusual career . |
| 14 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 15 | It was some time before the fashion magazines and newspapers started to write about this street culture , but when THE FACE wrote a big feature on the subject in its July 1983 issue the floodgates opened . |
| 16 | It was some such hope which united the movement that now coalesced from all points of the spectrum . |
| 17 | It was some hours before he had his wish . |
| 18 | It was some time before the door opened and closed in a muffle of lowered voices . |
| 19 | It was some time before he realized that he had been fooled . |
| 20 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 21 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 22 | It was some twenty years since Major Pond 's visit and the visitor from Booth 's enquiry team observed a communion service on a Sunday evening in 1901 : |
| 23 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 24 | It was some species of voice-activated flytrap she had never heard of . |
| 25 | There was so much spoil from this Avar stronghold that Charles used it as gifts , and it was some of of this booty that reached the distant King Offa of Mercia , in central Britain . |
| 26 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 27 | It was some 28 years between the death of Amy Robsart and the death of Robert Dudley . |
| 28 | Haussmann 's success can be measured in gallons : in 1860 27,000,000 gallons a day poured into Paris ( in one form or another ) , by 1870 it was some 80,000,000 . |
| 29 | It was some relief to come to the Bolivian town of Copacabana with its huge white cathedral . |
| 30 | But , with that unpredictability which makes biology such a fascinating science , it was some biochemists interested in nutrition who laid foundations for the next major advance in the treatment of cancer . |