Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 2 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 3 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
| 4 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 5 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 6 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 7 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 8 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 9 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 10 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 11 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 12 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 13 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 14 | Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes . |
| 15 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 16 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 17 | Using public transport seemed out of the question and renting a car was expensive , so we decided to sink some of our capital , buy a car , and sell it again before leaving . |
| 18 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
| 19 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 21 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 22 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 23 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 24 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 25 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
| 26 | He was lucky to survive , although he did suffer some permanent damage . ’ |
| 27 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 28 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 29 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 30 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |