Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy . |
| 2 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 3 | Taiwan had lagged behind some of the other economic " tigers " of the region in terms of deregulation . |
| 4 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 5 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 6 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 7 | Contrary to making it plain that they were just friends , Simon had indulged in some imaginary kiss-and-tell . |
| 8 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 9 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 10 | During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida . |
| 11 | Fedorov had suspected for some time , and now he knew . |
| 12 | Amy had gone into some detail as to how her husband had effected that state of affairs but beyond that , prevented partly by her inexperience , partly by her natural reserve and partly , indeed , by the barrier which Amy 's misery put up , Theodora had not penetrated . |
| 13 | A number of personal papers were taken away too , together with a hot water bottle bearing the name Benji , and clothes that Mrs Mackenzie had purchased for some of the children in the family of fifteen . |
| 14 | It was a magical room , carved out of the attic and reached only by a wrought-iron spiral staircase which Paul had rescued from some abandoned church . |
| 15 | Strangely , her mother 's moods , Agnes had noticed for some long time now , were more evident in the evening . |
| 16 | Dada had disappeared on some sort of little prowl of his own . |
| 17 | Plans for the extension of the war in Vietnam had existed for some time in the Pentagon . |
| 18 | For a variety of reasons and motives Hollywood had floundered towards some kind of realism . |