Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it may have mishandled some details , such as last week 's round of Arab-Israeli talks ( see page 65 ) , its big decisions — to bring its troops swiftly home , to maintain the siege around Iraq , to establish a haven for Iraqi Kurds and to push Israel and the Arabs into long-overdue negotiation — have mostly been right . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 4 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 5 | But it must have taken some sweet talking from Newman to persuade Mansell 's wife Rosanne to agree . |
| 6 | But it was a considerable enterprise and it must have had some considerable justification . |
| 7 | If Britain had suggested something like this several years earlier , it might have found some support within the Six , but by 1957 they had already passed far beyond that point . |
| 8 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 9 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 10 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 11 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 12 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 13 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |