Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 2 | Now , he said , if there 's any question of doubt , he 'll seal it and then the receiver would know there was some question of doubt , and he would seal back the reply . |
| 3 | Observers say there was some overlap between his role and that of Hargrave and Wastnage . |
| 4 | Do you know I was thinking this the other day , do you think , say there was some girl like , let's just take Flick no , somebody , who do , who do , who do the people think 's real , who do the blokes always , yeah Flick they think is a real frump do n't they ? |
| 5 | And I say there was some sort of a an embarrassment I can only call it |
| 6 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 7 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 8 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 9 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 10 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 11 | Your sister says there was some game you played with Terry Place . |
| 12 | But Carl had said there was some problems there |
| 13 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 14 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |
| 15 | picking up the staff costs there was some concern about putting that in there because we were awaiting the result of the T S G settlement . |
| 16 | I 've been told there was some baths in there as well |
| 17 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 18 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 19 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 20 | ‘ Where are you taking me ? ’ she demanded , wishing there was some way she could force an answer out of him . |
| 21 | She moistened her lips , wishing there was some way she could avoid his shrewd gaze , but his hands caught at her arms as she tried to turn away . |
| 22 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 23 | ‘ I know there was some trouble backstage last night , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 25 | Now one of the jobs of the police force , and especially the CID , is to try to establish a pattern in crime , if this is possible , and in this instance both Sergeant Lewis and myself found it difficult not to believe there was some link between the two events . |
| 26 | Seems there was some others saw him after I did , monkeying about by that cave-in again . |
| 27 | It seems there was some sort of watch on him , yes . |
| 28 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 29 | Table 4 demonstrates that in the period covered there was some income redistribution , but mainly towards middle income groups rather than those on the lowest levels . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose he was some kind of tenant . ’ |