Example sentences of "some [noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 2 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 3 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 4 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 5 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 6 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , some years ago a patient came to the out-patient department complaining of severe bouts of depression . |
| 8 | Some years ago a man-hole was built behind the retaining wall . |
| 9 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 10 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 11 | He rubbed his chin , ‘ Some years ago a platelayer named Jed Knighton opted out of the rat race and became what I suppose you 'd call a tramp . |
| 12 | Some years ago a man named John Powell wrote a book entitled Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am ? |
| 13 | Some years ago a presenter at a seminar on project management referred to the Taylor Woodrow logo and said he had often wondered who was on the other end of the rope . |
| 14 | Some years ago a number of philosophers of science and some scientists had the vision of a unified science in which all the separate disciplines would be integrated within a set of all-embracing , mutually coherent theories . |
| 15 | Some years earlier a train carrying pilgrims had been so seriously held up that its journey had taken twenty-four hours rather than seven or eight . |
| 16 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 17 | Nigel Steen 's body was found in some weeds nearly a mile downstream . |