Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 2 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 3 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 4 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 5 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 6 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 7 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |
| 8 | This involved some form of lexical checking . |
| 9 | This occasioned some surprise . |
| 10 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 11 | This received some support from the statistics , as far as Conservatives are concerned ; the total number of ministerial appearances on regional news and weekly programmes in the period analysed by Blumler was 124 , while Conservative back-benchers appeared 104 times . |
| 12 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 13 | This caused some alarm in the British timber trade . |
| 14 | This caused some concern to all present as the top two positions were now held by Scots . |
| 15 | This caused some puzzlement . |
| 16 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 17 | This caused some wrangling which delayed the continuation of the pursuit , and ended in von Keller conceding that he would divide the spoils in a safe place to ensure safe division . |
| 18 | This caused some confusion in the grandstands as most spectators did not realise that they had gone through Kyle and O'Grady . |
| 19 | ‘ This caused some amusement amongst the lads at work , ’ he said . |
| 20 | This caused some comment among the Americans . |
| 21 | ‘ When this happened some farmers used to say : ‘ I ca n't afford to hev the wheels done , ’ and they 'd stand the cart or the wagon in a pond until the felloes of the wheel swelled up . |
| 22 | The so-called ‘ wets ’ favoured an interventionist role for government in the economy and were prepared to increase state spending to boost employment , even if this risked some increase in inflation . |
| 23 | This showed some recovery until 19 6 7 or 1968 , followed by a further and very sharp decline , in particular of about 50 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ This started some hours ago , by the look of things , ’ said the captain to Harold . |
| 25 | This required some disturbance ( ‘ strain ’ as Hirschi calls it ) — such as the ‘ gap ’ — to push them out of convention and into crime . |
| 26 | This prompted some quips during which Vanessa 's reply was lost . |
| 27 | Since manufacturing productivity rose by only 2.9 per cent a year between 1962 and 1964 , this implied some combination of higher inflation and lower profitability . |
| 28 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 29 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 30 | In 1170 he had persuaded Marie , Viscountess of Bearn , to do homage to him for all her lands — and this included some estates which , theoretically speaking , were within the duchy of Aquitaine . |