Example sentences of "that it was some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary .
2 Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill .
3 Early explorers of the Pacific coast of North America , who coveted the pure white pelts worn by the resident Indians , thought that it was some kind of polar bear .
4 The doctor examined him cursorily and told Carolyn that it was some kind of viral infection .
5 I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’
6 I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’
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