Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 2 | Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city . |
| 3 | It was at some time within this period of dawning civilisation that the creatures at the head of the biological chain , that is , man 's early forebears , first experienced the effect of an intellectual development that directed their behaviour towards what was to become the origins of human cooperation . |
| 4 | It was at some distance from other groups , in those days not numerous , on that beach . |
| 5 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 6 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 7 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |