Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] some " in BNC.

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1 The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building .
2 When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) .
3 Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances .
4 The district council 's public relations manager Chris Trim said the District Commercial Services was separate from the council and run as a public company , although it used some of the council 's facilities such as payroll and computers .
5 The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 .
6 therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning .
7 Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail .
8 He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school .
9 Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels .
10 Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions .
11 Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures .
12 " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good .
13 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
14 ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for .
15 Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change .
16 Unless it had some other cause entirely …
17 The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion .
18 Research evidence suggests that old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar had a negligible , or , because it replaced some instruction and practice in composition , even a harmful , effect on the development of original writing .
19 She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them .
20 The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it .
21 ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’
22 In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ .
23 While it approved some types of drug testing , the Supreme Court did leave the anti-testing forces a glimmer of hope for ultimate legal containment .
24 In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market .
25 It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) .
26 Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up .
27 Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’
28 He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out .
29 Though it claimed some influence upon the councils of action in the North East and in London , its impact was minimal .
30 I therefore reject the argument on behalf of the appellants in this case , that the Home Secretary is obliged to follow the judges ' views as to the requirements of retribution and deterrence in mandatory life sentence cases , even though it allowed some exceptions .
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