Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 2 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 3 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know he 's some flu or something , he 's been in bed for four days |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 7 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 8 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 9 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 10 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not understand you , ’ he rasped , ‘ but coming from you I imagine it is some acid comment . |
| 12 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 13 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyone would think we were some kind of free education service , ’ grumbled Joyce , having disposed of the child and returned to her central eyrie . |
| 17 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 18 | Well I assume they 're some sort of |
| 19 | I know it 's some time ago , but I do remember , vaguely . |
| 20 | When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose he was some kind of tenant . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know why you should have led me to believe he was some kind of old buffer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Guess it 's some kind of indigenous British bird , huh ? ’ , suggested an American copy editor I worked with recently when he was checking the meaning of the term ‘ reggie-spotter ’ . |
| 24 | Canetti 's great foe is death and his belief in the power of words to fight it is some kind of myth that motivates his pen . |
| 25 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 27 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 28 | I gathered he 's some sort of adviser on Roman antiques — I 'm a little vague about details . |
| 29 | No , I , I knew it was some time but I just I remembered Louise 's birthday because Louise 's birthday was the Friday the thirteenth |
| 30 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |