Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 2 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 3 | Broomhead had tied the cabinet to the rave of the cart , lest it fall over and become more scratched if by any faint chance the horse decided to show some signs of life . |
| 4 | Some 60,000 people in Srebrenica , in eastern Bosnia , have received no aid at all by road since December , though the US air force did drop some supplies by parachute into the area on Saturday night . |
| 5 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 6 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 7 | At last my boyish figure had acquired some status and a more attractive description : gamine . |
| 8 | Tyson 's lawyer wanted to bring some women in or summat , these three women what would say what other , like go against her to say erm that she wou just wanted him |
| 9 | Ice expected to last some time , but look for a few skimmers and perch at Newport on pole and maggot . |
| 10 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 11 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 12 | The smaller girl began to say some words from a song : |
| 13 | Yeah mummy , mummy the window cleaner went to rescue some people along came the fireman |
| 14 | The Democrat-controlled House budget committee , therefore , had little opportunity to redraft the budget in a radical fashion , although overall its budget proposal did redirect some $13,0000 million of the spending embodied in the Bush plan . |
| 15 | The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council appeared to give some support to this distinction . |
| 16 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 17 | Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 . |
| 18 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 19 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 20 | Despite this , the Labour Group did persuade some schools to delay implementation of the L M S Initiative and I rather suspect that some of these schools regret this decision today . |
| 21 | The new package did contain some measures to alleviate the economic cost of adjustment for the poor . |
| 22 | The gangling , boyish 28-year-old Canadian actor had made some impression as an innocent in The Flim Flam Man ( 1967 ) and as a Malibu beach bum in The Sweet Ride ( 1968 ) , and seemed to have promise . |
| 23 | On his arrival in the village , the Franciscan had had some trouble with those who practised the black arts and used the cemetery for diabolical activities . |
| 24 | His body had regained some warmth and the sleep had relaxed him . |
| 25 | Fortunately the rain had ceased some time during the night . |
| 26 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 27 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 28 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 29 | The Wolfenden Committee 's ( 1978 ) survey of voluntary work in the social service field showed that 14 per cent of the national sample reported undertaking some work of that kind in a twelve-month period . |
| 30 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |