Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [to-vb] some " in BNC.

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1 With the opposition boycott of legislative elections in March 1992 [ see p. 38802 ] and updating of the electoral register permitted only between January and March of any year , several opposition parties had failed to register some 1 , 500,000 of their supporters .
2 Face-saving formulas involving unacknowledged compromises by the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships had served to overcome some of the potential obstacles to the Madrid conference .
3 The FDIC action came after worried investors had rushed to withdraw some $1,000 million of their savings , leaving the bank insolvent .
4 In 1926 breeders had managed to set some standards and formed a society , opening a herdbook for the Irish Moiled in that year , and by 1929 they had decided that the preferred colouring should be red or roan with a white dorsal line , white tail and underline and white udder .
5 And he would have to tell Ezzie all about it , every detail , how one recess long ago the boys had decided to put some girls in the school trash cans .
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