Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 2 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 3 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 4 | She 'd no idea why Ace should have broken his date with Dara to spend the evening with her , but it certainly looked as if by doing so he 'd stirred up some pretty powerful emotions . |
| 5 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 6 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 7 | 1992 ) , almost every DHA had met with GPs either individually or in small groups ; three-quarters had held general meetings in addition and two-thirds had carried out some form of survey . |
| 8 | When they returned with cameramen , the advance production team had picked up some local teenagers for the film . |
| 9 | Also , he had picked up some rare Charles Trenet and Johnny Halliday musichips . |
| 10 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 11 | Obviously he assumed that she had picked up some instant Romeo , and it was clear from his tone and expression that he condemned her as cheap and shallow . |
| 12 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 13 | The three young men had moved back some twenty or thirty feet , but were still watching Jessica . |
| 14 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 15 | Maria had brought out no money , but she had smuggled out some of her jewels . |
| 16 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 17 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 18 | They had brought in some greasy foreigner as partner when all along it had been promised to him . |
| 19 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 21 | During the liberation struggle , the two liberation movements , the Zimbabwe African Peoples ' Union ( ZAPU ) and the Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) , had set up some education programmes for fighters and for refugees . |
| 22 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
| 23 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 24 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 25 | Sir Hugh said the Nelson affair had thrown up some difficulties in source intelligence work . |
| 26 | Electors in various parts of the country had cleared out some of the cranks who were prostitutes in the Labour movement in order to get into the House of Commons . |
| 27 | They had paid out some £800 . |