Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] with some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing . |
| 2 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 3 | Shirley had clattered noisily on the linoleum , had huffed and puffed and banged about , and finally had said with some passion , ‘ You 're barmy . ’ |
| 4 | I had acted with some courage and endurance — and even intelligence , I hope — in a situation many men would have found hopeless . |
| 5 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 6 | Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace . |
| 7 | She came in bubbling with excitement ; all evening she had brimmed with some secret mirth . |
| 8 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
| 9 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 10 | During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida . |
| 11 | He had danced with some of the other girls but not with her . |
| 12 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 13 | She had dressed with some care . |
| 14 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 15 | Now and then , members of the aristocracy , perhaps even royalties , became acquainted with some Dissenting leader , and this was greatly talked about . |
| 16 | Isaac and his brother Jacob [ q.v. ] clubbed together to produce Hebrew books for the Christian market , and thereby became acquainted with some of the most eminent Christian Hebraists of the day . |