Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 2 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 3 | His ideas appeared to bring some benefits : he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife . |
| 4 | But these concepts did provide some women with categories of self-definition around which to mobilize , negotiate and occasionally disrupt and claim as their own . |
| 5 | The fact that the trustees had to retain some monies to cover expenses did not prevent the income arising from the specific assets . |
| 6 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 7 | Defeat in five of the last six presidential elections had convinced some Democrats that fresh ideas were needed , while others call for a more forceful and enthusiastic avowal of liberal policies . |
| 8 | Fields had spent some months , and a modest amount of money , examining the feasibility of a new transatlantic airline ; he had approached several key figures who had been with Laker Airways and solicited their interest ; he had begun to make enquiries about purchasing an aircraft . |
| 9 | The Beaver Committee defined 294 areas of England ‘ black ’ , requiring smoke control , and by 1974 all but fourteen local authorities had taken some steps towards implementing the Act . |
| 10 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 11 | He said the killings had shaken some members of Panama 's Defence Force , but that in the aftermath of the uprising , when suspicion of complicity ran wide , no one was prepared to plead for the lives of the coup plotters . |
| 12 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 13 | This gave a measure of protection since the Pharaohs wanted to preserve some animals to hunt . |
| 14 | Drawing to a halt , he recollected an investigation which one of his colleagues had conducted some weeks before . |