Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 2 | The club was reimbursed some of the money by another Maxwell company so the loss to the club is not substantial . |
| 3 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 4 | Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ . |
| 5 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 6 | Looking back , I fancy that when I went skiing I always hoped that the snow was covering some kindly grass , certainly not something as hard and painful as the arres of Pierre-Saint-Martin . |
| 7 | ‘ Equal pay for equal work ’ was a justifiable battle-cry of the feminist movement and that ambition was achieved some years ago . |
| 8 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 9 | He was very much loved by his owner Gordon ( who was tragically to die quite young ) but Hasso 's blood was to produce some very good animals , not only in the UK but also in Australia , America and Canada . |
| 10 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 11 | This is a marvellous example of how the new sociological dimension was giving some films a new prestige and a new relevance and thereby gaining Hollywood new friends . |
| 12 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 13 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 14 | lt has come to the Prince 's ears , my lord , that the boy was seen some days ago entering Parfois , escorted by four of your men . |
| 15 | Until the Partnership Act was amended some 25years ago , the maximum number in a partnership was limited to 20 . |
| 16 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 17 | This fundamental requirement was established some years ago and is achieved by creating work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files with the CAD part files . |
| 18 | Part of today 's cargo was assembled some weeks ago by Lance Corporal Gary Manning … a soldier who lost his life in the crash in Scotland . |
| 19 | On Monday 27 July 1778 the first major action of the new war was fought some 70 miles [ 112 km ] west of Ushant , and proved indecisive , but convinced Louis XIV 's chief minister , the Comte de Vergennes , that he needed Spanish help to clear the way for a successful invasion . |
| 20 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 21 | This became the object of pilgrimage until the shrine was destroyed some time in the 16th century . |
| 22 | It was like a virtually an all night blitz job and so bits of it , you know , it was n't like , totally completed , you know , you 've got and as Scouse was doing some of it it was er the paintwork leaves something to be desired in areas . |
| 23 | His job was to drive some 50–100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts . |
| 24 | The first edition was produced some twenty years after the death of Mohammed — a much smaller gap than that between the death of Jesus and the emergence of the New Testament ! |
| 25 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 26 | Initially their aim was to set some rules and , as far as possible , stick to them . |
| 27 | Jones 's acknowledged aim was to seize some important person as a hostage to exchange for the American sailors taken prisoner by the Royal Navy , who were imprisoned indefinitely as pirates , and in his own words , ‘ to put an end of burnings in America by making a good fire in England ’ . |
| 28 | I ascertained that the aim was to achieve some ideal unity of the two . |
| 29 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 30 | A teacher was doing some mental arithmetic , including estimation , with a group of 15 year olds . |