Example sentences of "in some [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a Welsh team wins the West title in some future season we will have no objection to their moving into England 's National League , ’ said Stephen Baines , the Hockey Association chief executive . |
| 2 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 3 | Their minds are somehow not right for it ; in some other discipline they might have performed quite respectably . |
| 4 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 5 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 6 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 7 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 8 | A part of her did n't want to ; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris . |
| 9 | In his face there was a hard , uncompromising certainty about things ; in some strange way it reminded Lehmann of Berdichev . |
| 10 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 11 | This feeling was quite different ; in some strange way it seemed to reach into her very soul . |
| 12 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 13 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 14 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 15 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 16 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 17 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 18 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 19 | However there is no truth in the rumour that in order to utilise funds in some charitable way they purchased Pest Control London North in its entirety . |
| 20 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 21 | In some mystical way they actually are Hungarian nationhood , its authority , its manna . |
| 22 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 23 | For he thinks it is scientifically debatable , ambiguous and controversial , and yet it is convincing , because ‘ in some puzzling way it is true ’ . |
| 24 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 25 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 26 | In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride . |
| 27 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |