Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 2 | I do not believe that it would be lawful unless it were underpinned by some appropriate resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations . |
| 3 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 4 | To glamorise the whole thing ( the car obviously could not be kept at the camp ) , it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage , possibly in Aston Clinton , which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton . |
| 5 | It was followed by some other railway and gas companies , and from the 1900s a range of well-known paternalistic companies : Cadbury , Colmans , Coats , Cunard , Wills , Marconi , and many others . |
| 6 | While we also had Black women only space throughout the conference it was felt by some Black women that this was a substitute for the conference discussing anti-racist strategies . |
| 7 | During the time of Rudolf II and later it was used like some grand art market , the stall-holders setting up their wares in the window embrasures . |
| 8 | It was found by some local horsemen and this was the beginning of the end for the murderous publican . |