Example sentences of "some [vb past] at the " in BNC.

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1 One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order .
2 Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role .
3 In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA .
4 Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate .
5 Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum .
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