Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clearly some sort of code . |
| 2 | It was also some way from orthodox Christianity , as ‘ creationism ’ ( and indeed Bridgewater natural theology ) can often or generally be . |
| 3 | It was n't Creed in the window , after all , it was just some advert for brilliantine , but his heart did n't know the difference and he sat there until it slowed . |
| 4 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 5 | I knew once we started playing electrically we would n't be confusing the journalists and they would n't think it was just some guy from Dinosaur masturbating in his room . |
| 6 | ‘ At first he thought it was just some nut who did n't like him getting married . ’ |
| 7 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 8 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 9 | Again it was quite some time before the connections were made and this information was fed into the collective consciousness of local government . |
| 10 | Perhaps the centre of it was indeed some intimation of doom : his mother dead so soon after his birth , his father indifferent , best joked about , his context a wasteland of the Western world . |
| 11 | it printed out and I was n't gon na leave it so I waited cos it was obviously some joker kidding about . |
| 12 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 13 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 14 | It was only some time later when he was safely on his way to Theatre that they realised the whole lot had been filmed . |