Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
| 2 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 3 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 4 | ‘ Since then , he 's seen me through some incredible times . |
| 5 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 6 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 7 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 8 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 9 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 10 | ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog . |
| 11 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 12 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 13 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 14 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 15 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 16 | I have tried it on some plain laces and , as with the No. 2 switch , the effect is not simple due to the structure of lace — the resulting fabric is quite different to the original . |
| 17 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |