Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 2 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 3 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 4 | They were so different from the lively Irish nuns , who , when they were passing some workmen unloading crates of beer into a pavement hatch in Nassau Street , Dublin , burst out laughing when the jovial brewery workers called out to them : ‘ Now , girls , steady up ! ’ |
| 5 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 6 | Giles 's proposal to make them subservient to government agents was rejected , but they were given some responsibility for supervising the work of both the regular police and the headmen , who were now designated the ‘ rural police ’ . |
| 7 | Educated Africans , he saw , would only fully accept European rule if they were given some access to the central institutions of government . |
| 8 | And not only have they consumed practically a quart of maple ice-cream , but just before I came in here they were ordering some pizzas ! |
| 9 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 10 | No they 've been banned from taking them in in case they clobbered anyone with them you see oh they were banned some time ago , as were flags they used to carry flags at one time and rattles , but er they do n't let you take anything in . |
| 11 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 12 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 13 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 14 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 15 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |