Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or felt some disaffection to the place where she was ? ’ |
| 2 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
| 3 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 4 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 5 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 6 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 7 | An early system that produced some success was that of Sayre ( 1973 ) . |
| 8 | The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later . |
| 9 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , he admits to editing out one joke that created some controversy when it appeared in a promotional reel earlier this year . |
| 11 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 12 | Now we turn to non-consensual influences , differentiated influences , factors that affected some individuals but not others , or that affected different individuals in different ways . |
| 13 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 14 | A case that caused some alarm in 1908 , however , revealed that revolvers could also fall into the hands of youths . |
| 15 | The majority were Spaniards , but there were many from South America , particularly Venezuela , and these were better dressed and better off than the other students , a fact that caused some resentment . |
| 16 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 17 | It was the plumbing of the latter that required some thought . |
| 18 | Ideally the control task would be one that required some sort of discrimination learning , thus ensuring that both groups came to the test phase having had the experience of learning one previous discrimination problem . |
| 19 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 20 | Ellis found only a moderate rate ( about 4 per cent ) of frank insanity among his subjects ; a figure , incidentally , that included some examples of brain disease . |
| 21 | The ships struck in a glancing blow that rolled some men off the ML 's deck , and on the next pass the small destroyer came within 100 yards , firing two of her three 105mm ( 4.1in ) guns and her 20mm guns into the ML . |
| 22 | It was only the fact that boards were expensive , Michael thought , that kept some people out of the water . |
| 23 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 24 | Whew , that took some doing , I can tell you . |
| 25 | I bet that took some setting up when they ? |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 27 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 28 | It was a comparison that generated some calls for reform ; most notable among these was James MacGregor Burns in The Deadlock of Democracy published in 1963 , arguing the case essentially for the equivalent in the United States of a " responsible party system . " |
| 29 | In doing so , the latter established the basic rules that brought some order to the method by which students were enabled to become candidates for office . |
| 30 | Look at the cataract of noise caught by TV sound men , look at the verbosity that snared some novelists into thinking he was a primitive intelligence capable of Ciceronian insight . |