Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 2 | Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago . |
| 3 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 4 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 5 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |