Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 2 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 3 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 4 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 5 | This became the object of pilgrimage until the shrine was destroyed some time in the 16th century . |
| 6 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 8 | Peace of mind when the husband was working some distance from the farm could be of great importance . |
| 9 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 10 | At least one MP was taking some solace from the economic medicine . |
| 11 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 12 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 13 | The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn . |
| 14 | Billy thinks the snake was stolen some time between 11.30am and 3pm yesterday and anyone with any information should contact their nearest RUC station . |
| 15 | The house was built some time in the second half of the 12C or beginning of the 13C . |
| 16 | The purpose of this section was to shed some light on the explicit training of specialist language teachers . |
| 17 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 18 | An official bulletin was expected some time after the consultation . |
| 19 | The final task was to construct some sort of cover to prevent the fish from jumping out . |