Example sentences of "it [vb past] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
2 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
3 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
4 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
5 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
6 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
7 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
8 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
9 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
10 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
11 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
12 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
13 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
14 | While it approved some types of drug testing , the Supreme Court did leave the anti-testing forces a glimmer of hope for ultimate legal containment . |
15 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
16 | Though it claimed some influence upon the councils of action in the North East and in London , its impact was minimal . |
17 | It showed some women in a northern English town at the turn of the century ; they were standing under an advertisement for Mazawattee tea and seemed depressed . |
18 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
19 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
20 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
21 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
22 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
23 | It fell some way up the street . |
24 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
25 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
26 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
27 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
28 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
29 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
30 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |