Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 2 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 3 | Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries . |
| 4 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 5 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 6 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 7 | He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers . |
| 8 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 9 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 10 | Gala won the ruck and Lawson made some ground before belting the ball up the middle of the field . |
| 11 | An inspection found some wards were overcrowded , and some toilets and bathrooms were dirty . |
| 12 | Pc Elsegood overtook some cars on a stretch of dual carriageway and became aware of a white VW car following very close behind him . |
| 13 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 14 | And you might both like to talk to each other now about what you found easy what you found hard because Kelly found some bits hard , you thought oh it 's obvious , did n't you ? |
| 15 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 16 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 17 | Sarah designed some swings : ‘ There are green triangles at the sides to stop children banging their heads and getting hurt . ’ |
| 18 | Abdulai Conteh , Vice-President under Joseph Momoh> until the April coup , was denied refuge in the United Kingdom K after the UK Home Secretary decided on July 24 that Conteh bore some responsibility for governmental corruption . |
| 19 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 20 | In other vicinities , clusters of schools shared some part of their staff in pursuit of a common curriculum entitlement for all those pupils who would transfer from , for instance , distant and isolated primary schools to a single country-town secondary school . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 22 | Although individual schools reported some degree of increased activity in this area , facilitated by extra staff , it was clear that except in certain well-known cases , home-school links was not a PNP priority . |
| 23 | In all , the administration moved some $13,000 million in domestic priorities . |
| 24 | The pilot baled out into the sea , while the aircraft crashed some distance off Delimara Point . |
| 25 | A soldier moved some markers from one side of a canal to the other . |
| 26 | Vets , police and RSPCA inspectors found some animals unable to stand , others emaciated , one cow collapsed in a barn , with rats running over it , apparently dead . |
| 27 | Labour moved some way towards electoral reform with the Plant Committee , but while Kinnock himself favours change , he feared that a commitment to electoral reform would split the party . |
| 28 | This latest incident , involving the sixth IAEA team which arrived in Iraq on Sept. 22 , occurred when armed guards prevented some inspectors from leaving the premises of an office block in the centre of Baghdad , the capital , where , on Sept. 24 , they claimed to have discovered evidence of an Iraqi uranium enrichment programme based on sophisticated centrifuge technology . |
| 29 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 30 | Together with John Varnom , Branson concocted some ideas to give Event ‘ some bite ’ . |