Example sentences of "[noun] had [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 2 | Back in the late 60s and early 70s , Basil d'Oliveria had with some fine batting displays caught the eyes of England selector and displayed his talents on a world stage with the former Gloucester and Worcester bat , Tom Graveney given the mighty West Indians some headaches . |
| 3 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 4 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 5 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 6 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 7 | Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas . |
| 8 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 9 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 10 | Eric commented that trade at JHL was steady and that two JP s had for some time been seen as a luxury , so they were pleased to release G-JETP . |
| 11 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 12 | Amoco had for some time contested liability . |
| 13 | Catherine had for some while been recruiting architects from the West , especially from Italy . |
| 14 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |
| 15 | Stravinsky had for some years been his favourite composer , and he had worked with Hanns on ideas for the setting and costumes . |
| 16 | None the less , its economy had in some ways benefited from the diversification and protection from external competition which resulted from international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence by the white minority government in 1965 . |
| 17 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 18 | Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them . |
| 19 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 20 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 21 | Just as men had at some remote date in the past surrendered some of their individual rights to a sovereign and thus created civil society , so now each State must surrender some of its sovereignty to a supranational authority . |
| 22 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 23 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 24 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 25 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 26 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 27 | Tanberg had for some time been interested in the way that hydrogen behaves in the presence of metals such as palladium . |
| 28 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 29 | It emerged that Hayman had for some years been connected with the Paedophile Information Exchange ( PIE ) , and had received their contact magazine — carrying advertisements from men seeking sex with children — through the post . |
| 30 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |