Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that mind and body were separate yet in some sense connected has dominated European thought . |
| 2 | We were alone together in some prelapsarian grotto . |
| 3 | Like Christopher Gray [ q.v. ] , he bought some of the plants collected at Fulham Palace by Henry Compton , bishop of London [ q.v. ] , after the bishop 's death in 1713 , and by 1724 his stock was rich enough for some of his exotic trees and shrubs , including the moss rose , to be listed by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] in his Gardeners and Florists Dictionary ( 1724 ) . |
| 4 | She seemed as if only her outer shell were present , while the real Susan was far away in some secret world where no one could follow her . |
| 5 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |