Example sentences of "had some kind " in BNC.

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1 Last summer she had some kind of shock — nobody knows what .
2 She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect .
3 She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars .
4 If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) .
5 If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) .
6 Sandison suspected that he had some kind of private income but , judging by the state of his clothes , his means , from whatever source , were limited .
7 As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ .
8 He had some kind of seizure . ’
9 ‘ Your father had some kind of seizure , ’ he said , sure enough of his diagnosis to be confident .
10 Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship .
11 ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same .
12 She had some kind of a mid-European accent .
13 ‘ He had some kind of religious quasi-mystical experience here in this room .
14 Peter wished that he had some kind of weapon .
15 He had some kind of tool , and he was trying to lever the window open .
16 The nearer the pilgrim approached the Pyrenees the deeper he penetrated a countryside where almost every landmark had some kind of association with Roland .
17 He did n't know when they 'd be back ; all he knew was that his boss had some kind of private deal going with the gang foreman of a motorway sub-contractor , and the boys always appeared without notice , worked at the speed of practised moonlighters , and probably got their money in a plain envelope passed under a pub table somewhere .
18 But it would be wrong to suppose that the final community in such a sequence had some kind of privileged status that guaranteed its stability .
19 Nevertheless , they had some kind of conscience .
20 Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation .
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