Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 2 | As I had made some pretty critical remarks about the Soviet Union , at a time the war-time alliance still commanded admiration , especially among the young , he pointed out that if printed , these views would be taken by the Kremlin to be officially inspired . |
| 3 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 4 | My dissertation was on Yugoslavia , as I had learnt some Serbo-Croat at Nottingham . |
| 5 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 6 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 7 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |