Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] had [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now .
2 Mrs Cass said she had bought many of her pets but had taken some abandoned by their owners and had found others running wild in the street .
3 This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance .
4 Prior to its involvement in the ESSE/L Project , School G had already developed its library resources and had nurtured some significant resource-assisted curriculum initiatives .
5 By the end of the month his position in the polls showed that he remained ahead of his Democratic rivals and had recovered some of the ground lost during the early phase of the scandal .
6 In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills .
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