Example sentences of "be [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 2 | BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships . |
| 3 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |
| 4 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 6 | Been through some bad times , you see . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been through some interesting times of late , ’ Lucy told him , and smiled along with him when she saw that he understood the reference she was making . |
| 8 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 9 | It would be wrong to disregard them and they are worth some special study . |
| 10 | We , like the Kalam of New Guinea , distinguish jays and crows , or red deer and roes ; but whether the two kinds of native oak in Britain are one species or two is a problem , and certainly we all know that there are more differences between different breeds of dogs than there are between some distinct species of animals . |
| 11 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 12 | We find it difficult to know how to obtain samples of families with recent baptisms , so we enlist the help of some local clergy who are interested , and we find that it seems simpler to restrict ourselves to baptism within the Anglican Church , since other baptisms in nonconformist churches and chapels suggest that the parents are of some definite religious following . |
| 13 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 14 | I think you 're like some disgusting little animal , some creature from another planet . |
| 15 | You 're like some bitter clone of the Fernando I once knew . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're like some beautiful sea nymph … ’ he whispered softly in her ear , his hands protectively holding her slim body as , half standing and half floating in the water , she wound her arms about his neck . |
| 17 | You come to the reprocessing plant posing as a journalist but really you 're on some undercover assignment for a powerful organization , maybe for a government . |
| 18 | There you are with some glum , drunken , disapproving monster and you creep round asking him what 's wrong and trying to cheer him up . ’ |
| 19 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 20 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 21 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 22 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 23 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 24 | He 's been in some good ones actually . |
| 25 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 26 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 27 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 28 | All stress the role of grace and man 's total dependence upon God for salvation : they point out that good works are not the result of human will-power but are in some mysterious way the actions of God himself . |
| 29 | What is being alleged here is that NBFIs create assets which are in some close measure substitutes for money and which have their own advantages , interest perhaps or long-term capital gain , which money does not have . |
| 30 | The need to reject unmatchable subjects because they are in some rare category of the extraneous variables means that the sample groups do not truly represent the population ; |