Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 2 | In other words , I was to some extent leading the British public astray . |
| 3 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 4 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 5 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 6 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 7 | And even if I was in some way trying to do this , I certainly did n't succeed . |
| 8 | I was in some kind of trance . |
| 9 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 10 | When I woke up I was in some back alley . |
| 11 | I was in some doubt as to whether the Corporal had stumbled upon us accidentally on his way out of the town or if he 'd been deliberately tasked . |
| 12 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 13 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 14 | She was under some kind of attack . |
| 15 | It was as if she was under some sort of hypnotic spell . |
| 16 | She had the impression she was on some kind of rollercoaster ride , exhilarating but inherently dangerous . |
| 17 | For while she was to some degree confused at that precise moment about the importance of keeping a job that paid well , she knew , whatever else was hazy , that she was very much in love with him . |
| 18 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 19 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 20 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 21 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |
| 22 | One time we were on some stunt on the airfield and the people were encroaching on the ground and we were told to push them back . |
| 23 | ‘ But we were in some trees , and so — ’ He made a motion with one finger across his throat . |
| 24 | We erm , we had n't got a lot of room for expansion down there , we were in , when I joined the department it was known as the Ipswich T Electric Supply and Transport Department and er we were in some buildings which were rented from the Electric Supply Department which housed the generators for the electricity , so we had n't got a lot of room for expansion there , I think we were all confined into about three offices . |
| 25 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 26 | He mentions his father 's visit again , when they were to some extent reconciled , with Sien sitting unrevealed in the waiting room . |
| 27 | The content of the Tables is reminiscent of the Tables in the Universal Decimal Classification , and , indeed , they were to some extent inspired by the latter . |
| 28 | They were of some kind of fibre , painted glossy chestnut , now dimmed and dulled , with bands of wood to give them strength . |
| 29 | The Universities Council for the Education of Teachers ( UCET ) debated this before agreeing to publication as a matter of course , though they were under some pressure from the DES , HMI , and , interestingly , from the Vice-Chancellors ( individually and collectively through the Committee for Principals and Vice-Chancellors ) . |
| 30 | My guess is that they were from some cabaret or other . |