Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy . |
| 2 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 3 | For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react . |
| 4 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 5 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 6 | Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme . |
| 7 | ‘ I arrived at work one Monday to find the roof had collapsed following some heavy rain , ’ she explained . |
| 8 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 9 | Taiwan had lagged behind some of the other economic " tigers " of the region in terms of deregulation . |
| 10 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 11 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 12 | By the 1870s matters had improved for some : a survey of Nonconformist ministers in the city of Oxford in 1875 showed stipends ranging from £60 p.a. plus house and allowances for a Primitive Methodist minister to about £300 p.a. for the Wesleyan Superintendent of the Oxford Circuit . |
| 13 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 14 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 15 | The Editor had asked for some more films to add to my list to show to your fish . |
| 16 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 17 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 18 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 19 | Contrary to making it plain that they were just friends , Simon had indulged in some imaginary kiss-and-tell . |
| 20 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 21 | Since the evergreen boughs were so dark and gloomy , Breeze had tied on some red beads as berries , and gummed the leaves before sprinkling them lightly with powdered ‘ frost ’ . |
| 22 | Rumours of a military coup had circulated for some time [ see p. 38571 ] . |
| 23 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 24 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |
| 25 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 26 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 27 | The tension in the room had changed in some way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida . |
| 30 | All strikers had to resort to some extent to borrowing , credit , casual work and other ways and means of managing . |