Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Leaders ' Training class was attended by Edith Harlow and Hermine Burg who helped to keep some classes going to LONDON and Dagenham throughout and after the war , while Molly was engaged on full time war work . |
| 2 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 3 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |
| 4 | Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care . |
| 5 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 6 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 7 | I was trying to pick up youngish artists who had had some recognition like Patrick Hughes . |
| 8 | Part of this negative image may be attributed to the general British dislike of South Asians who had acquired some knowledge of English and who followed some Western customs , but who had not fully assimilated the values of an English gentleman . |
| 9 | As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service . |
| 10 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 11 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 12 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 13 | At the year end in 1927 , a surplus of £281 was welcomed ‘ with gratification ’ , and attributed in a large measure to the Secretary , Lance Henly , who had introduced some innovations including a Bankers Order for subscriptions . |
| 14 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 15 | I fell through the door with Marius and immediately started talking to a former member of the British Parachute Regiment who had known some friends of mine . |
| 16 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 17 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |