Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have punished my whoremonger with some disgusting venereal complaint , but that would have been far too simple . |
| 2 | The manufacturer and the defendant in the case , Merrell Dow ( now Marion Merrell Dow of Kansas City ) , has consistently won its case in some 200 lawsuits brought by parents who claim that Bendectin is a teratogen . |
| 3 | He 's let his house to some English people . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The last I heard she 'd transferred her affections to some aspiring West End producer . ’ |
| 5 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 6 | ‘ But I know some people have felt so miserable they have seen their doctor for some medicine and have been told that the fumes are the likely cause of their symptoms . |
| 7 | Ernest was well off , having his share of the Jarvis family money , and there was no reason why he should not have made his school in some more attractive part of NW6 , up in the neighbourhood of Fortune Green for instance . |
| 8 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 9 | These will be offered to you when you first register with a doctor or if you have not seen your doctor for some time . |
| 10 | I 've got my eye on some nice paper with birds on . |
| 11 | We do n't actually guide visitors around the reserve , rather leave them to their own devices having informed them about what they 're likely to see and drawn their attention to some safety aspects . |
| 12 | This has had its effect on some birds : the fields which used to be sown with oats meant stubble in autumn and winter which held large quantities of seeds . |
| 13 | Having told her story with some brio , Miss Breeze burst into tears and was comforted by the motherly Miss Maitland . |
| 14 | In a conversation with the wife of his biographer , Alan Wood , erm who had drawn his attention to some injustice in the world , he said , ‘ But the universe is unjust . ’ |
| 15 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 16 | Most conservation bodies have used our data at some time . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you 've already got your eye on some other poor sucker . |
| 18 | Probably it had reached its maximum of some 120 by about 1120 . |
| 19 | Or it may have based its decision on some matter which , under the provisions setting it up , it had no right to take into account . |
| 20 | None the less , research has shown that a surprisingly large proportion of the population has not only had an experience that could be called religious , but that , for many , this experience consequently affected their lives in some quite important way . |
| 21 | But at the same time the painter now felt compelled to give in every painting a multiplicity of information about the formal properties of his subject , and this in turn rendered his task in some ways more complex than it had been hitherto . |
| 22 | In essence ( although we have rephrased and restructured his argument to some extent ) , Bottoms sees the penal system as suffering both a crisis of legitimacy and a crisis of resources . |
| 23 | Chapter Five opens with the information : ‘ Ursula and Kenelm had known my parents for some time , having been introduced originally by a mutual friend . |
| 24 | This time , thanks to the more ‘ open government ’ of the council chairman , David Webster , all the sports have known their allocations for some time and make their own judgment on merit without interference from the council . |
| 25 | Another mishap , this time from his younger days , might have found its way into Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 26 | So far we have restricted our attention to some of the main empirical trends behind the shift in the structure of the economy from manufacturing to services . |
| 27 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 28 | An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement . |
| 29 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |