Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] some of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID N'T sleep too well on the night before our last Inter-Continental Cup match against Cuba in Poznan — I woke up at six o'clock in the morning thinking about the future of the Irish hockey team and began to put down some of my ideas on paper . |
| 2 | But , as he always found room in his life for north Oxfordshire and his family , he also enjoyed setting down some of his local preoccupations and irritations . |
| 3 | Due to a crowded hard disk on my Compaq LTE 286/40 , I decided to back up some of my files ( using the switch/S for subdirectories ) onto 3.5-inch floppies , and delete the directories to create more space . |
| 4 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 5 | Maria had brought out no money , but she had smuggled out some of her jewels . |
| 6 | If , for instance , I volunteered to give up some of my bone marrow to save a person suffering from leukaemia , then , so long as my own health was not in danger , there would seem to be nothing wrong with my momentarily relinquishing my autonomy . |