Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 2 | Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 3 | Had he lived to see the present development of union organization , with its emphasis on restrictive employment and job demarcation , he might have wished to revise some of his views . |
| 4 | For example , a student chosen might have had to overcome some specific learning difficulty to gain success in modules ; another might have achieved success despite little previous exposure to formal further education . |
| 5 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she was killed the night before last ; but she could have gone missing some time before that . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 8 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 9 | That would have gone to pay some meagre way towards the debt . |
| 10 | He would have enjoyed seeing more of this blue and green misty world with the lingering scents of ancient magic everywhere and he would have liked to see some of its people and found out how they lived and what they did and if they were happy . |
| 11 | She would have liked to make some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind so she went out , closing the door behind her . |
| 12 | Six months ago I would have loved to get some new sounds for my new rack from your magazine . |
| 13 | Yet all were critical of the commitment to the Flanders theatre , would have preferred to see some land forces redeployed in Spain , and saw the blue-water policy as central . |
| 14 | If we had actually wanted to use them we would have had to do some tidying as the area of the bromide was somewhat less than A4 . |
| 15 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 16 | In order to be accorded the title of Messiah , and acclaimed as such by the populace , Jesus would have had to possess some legitimate claim . |
| 17 | To enter this eventful activity in 1986 , the prospective owner would have had to find some $45 million to have a VLCC of 250,000 tonnes built new . |
| 18 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 19 | Few countries with any sizeable Muslim population can have failed to experience some reflection of the mood of resurgent zeal abroad today in Islam . |