Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 2 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 3 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 4 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 5 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
| 6 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 7 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 8 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 9 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps in those preceding silences he took himself through some sort of editing process , preparatory to making an entrance in which not a word would be wasted . |
| 11 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |