Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not , as I had some apprehension , gold striped , or jewelled , ( the pipes , I mean ) . |
| 2 | As I said some moments ago , we have strengthened the law requiring trustees to disclose key information to members , to pensioners and to trade unions . |
| 3 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 4 | as you wanted some planning Glynis I have n't got any official plan |
| 5 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 6 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 7 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 8 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 9 | Hers was not a demanding character , and so long as she felt some evidence of a man 's care ( which living in Charles ' room would give her ) she would not need more . |
| 10 | She urged an inquiry , but as she explained some months later , ‘ This was brusquely and rudely refused by Mr. Merlyn Rees , the then Secretary of State , on the grounds that my allegations were untrue . ’ |
| 11 | Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition . |
| 12 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 13 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 14 | The pupils were then given the opportunity to create and experiment with her voice synthesiser as they performed some group poems of their own . |
| 15 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 16 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 17 | The plane had started to shudder as it entered some turbulence , and Myeloski was startled by it . |
| 18 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 19 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 20 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
| 21 | Atherton went in the eighth , lbw to one which Waqar whipped back at him as he played some way forward . |
| 22 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |
| 23 | And as soon as he put some funnels and that down it rods pressure came back . |
| 24 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
| 25 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |