Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That letter was written by some poor , unhappy , twisted , frustrated man with a rather scanty knowledge of women . |
| 32 | She was acting like some idiotic schoolgirl , not an intelligent woman , she thought in exasperation . |
| 33 | She shows how heated controversies about the use of the speculum , which was seem by some medical men as an instrument of rape , about operations that ‘ unsexed ’ and ‘ castrated ’ women , and about the relationship between male doctors and their female patients can be explained more effectively by viewing gynaecology as a ‘ science of woman ’ . |
| 34 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 35 | Even Apollinaire who , excited by the complete break that Cubism had effected with traditional painting , had tended to suggest that the ideal programme would be a move towards complete abstraction , could still insist that the Cubist was a realist , since his inspiration was drawn from some transcendental truth beyond the world of appearances . |
| 36 | During the time of Rudolf II and later it was used like some grand art market , the stall-holders setting up their wares in the window embrasures . |
| 37 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 38 | In 1945 , the Bank of England was nationalised with some Conservative support because of the way it had handled the depression . |
| 39 | Lithuania 's cause was helped by some ropey Northern Ireland defending , and several occasions when the midfield dropped back too far , causing a traffic-jam in the last third of the pitch . |
| 40 | John St.Clair spent hours prospecting for gold , and was rewarded with some bright literary nuggets . |
| 41 | Another way of improving quality and excluding obviously unsuitable candidates was to insist on some minimum formal academic qualification . |
| 42 | That carefully planned emphasis on diversity , however , gave way to a more consistent Austro-German bias when the promised Ravel was replaced by some meaty , exultantly played , but dramatically awkward cuts from Wagner 's Gotterdammerung , leaving Corigliano as the daring odd man out . |
| 43 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 44 | A useful form of positive discrimination was introduced by some French municipalities when they decided to subsidise neighbourhood general shops . |
| 45 | He was reduced in some intangible way : maybe it was his youth ; perhaps his essence had not yet unfurled to fill the room the way Francis 's used to . |
| 46 | So if we were sitting round this table in ten years time , we would actually be talking about what was commonplace , not what was coming at some distant and far off point ? |
| 47 | It was found by some local horsemen and this was the beginning of the end for the murderous publican . |
| 48 | The catastrophists ' notion of mass extinction allowed them to believe that the disappearance of species was not a part of Nature 's regular operations , but occurred only in those exceptional interludes when the earth 's normal stability was interrupted by some gigantic convulsion . |
| 49 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 50 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 51 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 52 | The MRO was greeted with some initial suspicion , understandably . |
| 53 | At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed . |
| 54 | It was the crying of a person who was hurt by some deep sadness . |
| 55 | The ‘ Hinch was stung into some retaliatory play , with a shot from Keri Kidd in the 55th minute only inches wide , but Kidd made amends in the following minute , beating Johnston from close in for the equaliser . |
| 56 | I would have concluded Herr Bremann was suffering from some serious illness , but for certain remarks his lordship made at that time assuring me this was not so . |
| 57 | It was almost as if she was suffering from some dreadful disease that could only be cured by his physical removal . |
| 58 | The renaissance of this subject was caused by some Soviet experiments in the mid 60s , where V. P. Dzhelepov and colleagues noticed that muon catalysed fusion of two deuterium nuclei depended on the temperature . |
| 59 | This in turn was followed by some misguided remarks from Pakistan 's cricket manager , a full-scale enquiry by ICC match referee Conrad Hunte , and the eventual announcement of mild penalties against the offenders . |
| 60 | It was followed by some other railway and gas companies , and from the 1900s a range of well-known paternalistic companies : Cadbury , Colmans , Coats , Cunard , Wills , Marconi , and many others . |