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

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1 The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before .
2 In order to communicate with military headquarters in Moscow Russian engineers had simply diverted some of the multicore trunk circuits from the main Vienna exchange so that they terminated in the Imperial Hotel .
3 The investigators had already developed some quite strong linguistic hunches , and while these often turned out to be fairly accurate , pilot work sometimes revealed that they were a little wide of the mark .
4 The result was that public perception of My Lai was crucially altered and Americans came to believe that Calley and his men had inadvertently killed some Vietnamese civilians in the heat of battle .
5 The Russians had also had some problems in Beirut when four of their diplomats were abducted by the radical Hizbollah movement .
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