Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd post some information about the match last night , mainly for our overseas friends . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 4 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 5 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 6 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 7 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 8 | I have in some sort made myself a party to your situation , and it will go hard with my conscience if you find yourself no better blessed than in your old condition . |
| 9 | From this suggestion developed the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) which has to some extent moved discussion away from process to concentrate upon a measurable product . |
| 10 | Such a view implies the incorporation of the arts or humanities into the broad domain of the social or human sciences , a development which has to some extent occurred in France with the concept of sciences humaines and in Germany under the rubric of Geisteswissenschaft . |
| 11 | This is particularly likely in the case of Euro-DM business , which has to some extent been driven abroad by restrictions on the German banking sector . |
| 12 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 13 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 14 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 15 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 16 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 17 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 18 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 19 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 20 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 21 | The manner and extent to which safety recommendations are followed up is an area where there is considerable room for improvement on the part of the many regulating authorities who have to some extent misjudged the degree of public anxiety on this subject . |
| 22 | In fact erm we have clearly in terms of the of the southern bypass is in place er and and also the A one , er there are two other schemes we do have in place so in terms of doing travel times and seeing er which is the quickest route we have to some extent er Well we rely upon the traffic model . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , anyhow , ’ she went on , as she fumbled for the matches and lit the gas lights , ‘ we 'll have Christmas together in peace , and — and in case it 's the last we have for some time , we 'll make it as nice as possible . |
| 24 | Oh well , you know No , I do n't think that , but I think that you have to I mean there has to some kind of relationship between I 'm not saying it 's anything to do with the personalities or anything like that but |
| 25 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 26 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 27 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 28 | But that left open a further question which concerned Brunner deeply : what was the connection between that unique revelation and three other more general areas : the whole universe as God 's creation ; the existence of human beings as ‘ made in the image of God ’ , albeit as ‘ fallen ’ they have in some fashion lost or disfigured that ‘ image ’ ; and the ordering of human life and society by such institutions as marriage and the state , which theology had traditionally treated as divinely ordained ? |
| 29 | I , my interest lies particularly I think in the kind of erm popular fiction written in America between the wars , though it has to some extent carried on since World War Two . |
| 30 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |