Example sentences of "that [prep] some [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them . |
| 2 | Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed . |
| 3 | For example , suppose that for some reason you wish to remember a long list of dissociated objects such as aeroplane , alarm clock , carrot , television , etc . |
| 4 | The other is that for some reason you 've been too scared to let anyone close enough . ’ |
| 5 | She knew that for some reason it was important for Jasper to have it from her . |
| 6 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 7 | ‘ So her father must have been a canon , ’ said Mark , though he felt that for some reason it was the canon 's widow who cut more ice here . |
| 8 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |
| 9 | He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon . |
| 10 | When Picasso painted the Demoiselles d'Avignon , those of his friends who were allowed to see it seem to have felt that in some way he had let them down . |
| 11 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 12 | She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John . |
| 13 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 14 | I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you . |
| 15 | ‘ I know that in some way I 've offended you , ’ she began . |
| 16 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 17 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 18 | It is possible that in some protein it would be an improvement to change one particular glycine to proline . |
| 19 | Laing accepts that to some extent he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth . |
| 20 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 21 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 22 | I think a lot of people who suffer from asthma type diseases here do suffer quite severely erm because of this and I think that at some point we 're probably going to have to , to look at it and try and devise a system which , which allows us to pick up the grass . |
| 23 | I see , simply , that at some point I became pathologically compliant . |
| 24 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 25 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 26 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 27 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 28 | He skirted the spruce plantation and supposed that at some point he should tell Sara about it . |
| 29 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 30 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |