Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 32 | She wondered if some good might come of being in the land of her ancestors . |
| 33 | She suspected that some aspects of rural life would be lost for ever but at the same time she could see that much was gained . |
| 34 | And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity , she could not ignore her bladder . |
| 35 | Many teachers were simply not available at the time we visited and some who were approached refused to go through the questionnaire with us . |
| 36 | We found that some last only 10 to 30 years and that 's not enough for archives of historical material . |
| 37 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 38 | We noticed that some graves in the eighth century had a plain stone beside the big Geometric vase . |
| 39 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 40 | IN our report of a High Court case at Inverness in which Malcolm Badenoch was jailed for five years after admitting being concerned in the supply of Ecstasy and cannabis , we stated that some of the local youths he recruited to distribute drugs were schoolchildren . |
| 41 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 42 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 43 | We heard that some bishops had sent on training courses in preparation for ordination people who could not be ordained because they had been divorced and were remarried . |
| 44 | We discovered that some had already found their way through our boots and were making a tasty meal out of our feet . |
| 45 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 46 | The ‘ Adults Learning ’ session with me in March will help marry some of the theory of adult education to the Medau teaching method — this has been part of the Teacher Training Course for some time , and we thought that some of you who have been qualified a little longer might like some theory to back up your practical experience . |
| 47 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 48 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 49 | He went round with some seeds , planting them in the ground and that , but some of them grew and some of them did n't . |
| 50 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 51 | To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next . |
| 52 | They reckoned that some £9.9 million would be needed to finance a plan for educating consumers in the basics of credit and provide funding for rescue services . |
| 53 | On Sunday they heard that some sort of evacuation was taking place at Dunkirk . |
| 54 | After a few drinks and dancing , all were quite content until they heard that some people get proposed to on Christmas Eve . |
| 55 | The two tiny suits of armour still stood where they belonged since some remote knight had given them up ( sent them to the attic of the day , like old hunting boots ) . |
| 56 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 57 | and they said that some of them were thinking of moving , but |
| 58 | They accepted that some regions had distinctive populations resulting from local evolution . |
| 59 | And some of his rel relatives they farmed but some of his relatives were blacksmiths as well you see . |
| 60 | When the development was first announced in 1990 , senior Motorola managers spoke of the company 's policy of encouraging its global suppliers to establish local operations alongside its manufacturing plants , and said they hoped that some suppliers might be persuaded to set up in Scotland . |