Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 4 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 10 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 11 | Most respondents thought that fundholding had in some respect changed the way they worked ( table III ) . |
| 12 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 13 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |