Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb past] some " in BNC.

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1 A few hours ago this all made some kind of sense .
2 It is thought possible that , when the Universe came into existence , there was by chance a little more matter than antimatter ; most of the matter destroyed itself by interaction with the antimatter , but that still left some over — the matter which makes up the Universe around us .
3 All this took some time and he was not a particularly military figure at the end of it .
4 Japan also encourages domestic mining with government grants and loans that in the late 1970s totalled some £5 million annually .
5 One such betrayed some of our best men . ’
6 This time the middle brother was keeping guard over it while the other two carried some of the fruit to market .
7 The eldest brother was lying under the tree , keeping guard over it to make sure nobody stole the fruit , while the other two took some pears to market .
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