Example sentences of "it [be] some [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 2 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's some master plan , that I 'm certain of . |
| 4 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 5 | It 's some animal instinct , I suppose , like the fact that you like the way some people smell and you do n't like others . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's some stuff Mum used to get in the market , but this is the last bottle , ’ said Maureen . |
| 7 | Yeah , he would be able to find out what type of union this is , or whether it 's some establishment association , we try quite frankly , I , I , I think it is . |
| 8 | The task here is to make people feel that it is some way superior , " Nothing works faster than Anadin " , is probably one of the best examples . |
| 9 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not understand you , ’ he rasped , ‘ but coming from you I imagine it is some acid comment . |
| 11 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
| 12 | It was some country mansion in Oxfordshire you know ? |