Example sentences of "[vb pp] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the immediate post-war period the problems created by the Russian Revolution , the emergence of a socialist Labour party as the major opposition party in Britain , and the extension of the franchise in 1918 to reward the working class and women for their role in the war , frightened some elements among the middle classes .
2 His pain had receded a little , as though this latest bout of agony had overloaded some circuits of his brain 's pain-response centre .
3 change the tyre , it 's , you know I see it 's the my God , I 've heard some good-uns in me but people are like that you know !
4 He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her .
5 He had heard some talk about an accident .
6 The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped .
7 The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago .
8 The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 .
9 By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century .
10 They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise !
11 Jonquil had pressed some books on Rachaela , unsuitable for anyone .
12 Alex had spilled some juice on the table top and was drawing his finger through the orange puddle with enjoyment ; Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast .
13 Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’
14 ‘ I 've traced some artifacts of … non-terrestrial origin … that came my way .
15 He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell .
16 He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell .
17 If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun .
18 polytechnics , Strathclyde had already developed some work in the fields of modern literature and linguistics , and wished to expand research and teaching within other areas of contemporary cultural study .
19 English manuscript illumination , as we shall see , also developed some qualities of its own which were not determined by French models .
20 The second child has already developed some idea of what rust is and is not .
21 You will by now have developed some facility with handling batches of data , summarizing features of their distributions , and investigating relationships between variables .
22 We 've also developed some sense of patterns of timing — a sense of what a typical week and a typical term might look like for the learner .
23 Of the 10 patients with indeterminate colitis — three developed pelvic sepsis one because of a leak from the pouch and six have developed some form of pouch related fistula ( p=0.01 v ulcerative colitis group ) .
24 In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) .
25 The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany .
26 Having developed some interest on the basis of a necessarily brief advertisement a potential candidate can apply for further written details which should contain a comprehensive description of the job , the task and skill content , the responsibilities , the salary and the details of the organisation including its history and anticipated future , and an application form .
27 Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether .
28 Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 .
29 Most clergy have received some instruction in voice production and singing during their theological training .
30 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
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