Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 2 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 3 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 4 | I just got razzed by some faggots . |
| 5 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 6 | He stressed that while the world population continued to increase by some 80,000,000 people a year , adequate nutrition was likely to remain a key problem . |