Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
2 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
3 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
4 | In the back of the taxi he snuffled contentedly at some ( he thought ) particularly witty riposte he had made to some piece of boyish impertinence from 3B in the final period of the day . |
5 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
6 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
7 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
8 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
9 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
10 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
11 | Haverford was warming to a theme which he had expanded in some of his best-loved ‘ Jottings ’ . |
12 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
13 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
14 | He had danced with some of the other girls but not with her . |
15 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
16 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
17 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
18 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
19 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
20 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
21 | On 4 August , Allitt had prepared a blackcurrant drink for Jonathan and he had remarked on some chalky bits at the bottom of the glass , said Mr Goldring . |
22 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |