Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 2 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 3 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 4 | Others believed it was some unknown , but benevolent , cosmic force . |
| 5 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 6 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 7 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 8 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 9 | Then he lowered his gaze and observed with dark humour , ‘ The receptionist probably thought you were some irate girlfriend come to bring me to book about something or other . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 11 | Damian Flint , the man she admired so much , thought she was some cheap little floozy he could get into bed while taking Swift at the same time . |
| 12 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 13 | No , I , I knew it was some time but I just I remembered Louise 's birthday because Louise 's birthday was the Friday the thirteenth |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 15 | Tabitha thought it was some kind of antenna ; then she realized it was an empty perch . |
| 16 | Putting out the cigarette again , as though stubbing Alice out of existence , he said , " I thought it was some hooligan , these kids who come into a house on an impulse " It was at this point that the next thought hit him , and again he sat staring . |
| 17 | He thought it was some research she was doing . |
| 18 | At first I thought it was some pimps , the door literally came off its hinges . |
| 19 | At first he thought it was some kind of a St Christopher medal , but it seemed too thick . |
| 20 | At first I think most of us thought it was some electrical appliance . |
| 21 | At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness . |
| 22 | I do n't know why but I always thought it was some nearest |
| 23 | I thought it was some kind of erm er documentary yeah that 's what I thought . |
| 24 | I thought it was some massive mansion . |
| 25 | You do n't imagine Charles would have asked Guy to help us if he thought he was some kind of financial shark ? |
| 26 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 27 | Marcus said it was some idiot wanting the Water Company . ’ |
| 28 | They said it was some illness he had when he was young . |
| 29 | Khor , he said it was some guy they know in Spiderglass itself — you know , they pay him and he sneaks out and does it right here . |
| 30 | You said he was some sort of cousin . ’ |