Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man working on a theatrical seminar called ‘ Computers — Whither ? ’ was angry because the ape recordings had thieved some of his points about the place of computer speech in the new drama . |
| 2 | Both dogs had acquired some of the privileges of a higher rank in the Cameron family pack that they had not really earned . |
| 3 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 4 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 5 | These specimens were sent to Harmon Craig of University of California , San Diego , whose paper on the helium abundance in volcanic atmospheres had stimulated some of Palmer 's early thoughts . |
| 6 | Though towns such as Thirsk which had been by-passed by the railways had lost some of their former vitality , others continued to expand , to rebuild and to prosper during the Victorian era . |
| 7 | Fand looked different to Ruth ; there was life in her face , as if Fincara 's spells had lost some of their hold . |
| 8 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 9 | Nevertheless all professional anthropologists had assimilated some of his ideas about the theoretical interpretation of particular social customs scattered through his writings , of which the most important were The Andaman Islanders ( 1922 ) , The Social Organization of Australian Tribes ( 1930–1 ) , and the occasional papers collected with a very laudatory foreword by Evans-Pritchard and the leading American social anthropologist Professor Peter Eggan in Structure and Function in Primitive Society ( 1952 ) . |