Example sentences of "it [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The uprating deals with the expenditure of the largest Government Department — it spent some £60 billion this year . |
| 32 | It needed some land sales to achieve pre-tax profits of £36.2m for the year to February . |
| 33 | It needed some spark to concentrate his mind , something to take him out of the ruck . |
| 34 | The edged weapons section included some rather unusual items such as a fairly massive French parade axe circa 1849 ; elaborately decorated with skull and crossed bones , a dying lion and the Légion d'Honneur , it aroused some interest and sold for £1,700 against an estimate of £500-£700 . |
| 35 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 36 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 37 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 38 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |
| 39 | It contained some routine passages but the central message was a sustained attack upon the two press lords : |
| 40 | It fell some way up the street . |
| 41 | It meant some women sat in virtual silence , unable to speak , even in the relative security of women 's groups . |
| 42 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 43 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 44 | Ramsay made a swift decision — and it demanded some resolution , since it would entail cost . |
| 45 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 46 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 47 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 48 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 49 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |
| 50 | He returned the phone to its table and slid the notebook into his pocket ; it took some forcing , but it went . |
| 51 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 52 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 53 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 54 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 55 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |
| 56 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 57 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 58 | It took some doing , but father Francis managed to blow out all one hundred candles on his cake . |
| 59 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 60 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |