Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
2 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
3 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
4 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
5 | It had occurred to some popular frontists that rearmament as an instrument of social control could cut both ways . |
6 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
7 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
8 | It is one-trial , because it requires only a single peck for the bird to learn ; it is avoidance because the result of the learning is for the bird to stop doing something it otherwise would ; and it is passive because the bird is not required actively to avoid , as it would if it had to escape from some unpleasant condition , but merely to refrain from pecking . |
9 | He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School . |
10 | Commercial interests were quick to recognize the scale of popular interest in the outdoors , but whilst the outdoors had become integral to everyday life in Britain by the Second World War , it continued to represent in some of its expressions a relatively uncommercialized leisure culture . |
11 | It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank . |