Example sentences of "was [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 2 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 3 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 4 | Elgar 's recording of his Falstaff with the LSO was for some reason in a separate release category . |
| 5 | I 'm not quite sure , that was for some reason . |
| 6 | Recruiting , therefore , was for some time done by means of the Old Boy network . |
| 7 | He was for some time a broken man . |
| 8 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 9 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 10 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 11 | In a letter for publication , Williamson had drawn attention to the fact that he drove a Jaguar and was for some time after known to the Gadfly column as ‘ Jaguar Man . ’ |
| 12 | This as far as we know which is reproduced from the original , was for some sort of a fender . |
| 13 | And the horse it came up with this long wooden handle , I do n't know whether it was three or four , I ca n't remember , but that was for some couchgrass . |
| 14 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 15 | I saw one of those and it was about some punk in New York and it was |
| 16 | There must have been times when their hearts were in their mouths , for it was not just an act of business long-sightedness , it was of some bravery ! |
| 17 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 18 | The family was of some eminence in Hull and especially in the Hull Trinity House . |
| 19 | Whilst this was of some concern to Anne , who relied greatly on Joan , it was of no concern to Joan herself : enthralled by everything she saw , by fairytale glimpses of the capital , the palace and the royal family , she viewed everything and everyone with avid interest . |
| 20 | In tone and content Mr Patten 's speech was of some significance , coming like a breath of damp air into the dry and brittle atmosphere of the Winter Garden . |
| 21 | Heather 's film would have led him there even if intuition had not , for the next picture on it was of some kind of school or college and there was one member of the Tyrrell Society 's inner circle , the circle in which Heather had been vitally interested whatever Cunningham might believe to the contrary , still unaccounted for . |
| 22 | It was of some length and contained a number of obiter dicta about the obvious gravity of the crisis through which the nation had passed , the less obvious but equally searching crisis which it still faced , the dangers of living in fools ' paradises and believing that there could be play without work , the crushing burden of debt , and the responsibilities of the wealthy classes . |
| 23 | She saw Tom 's brow clear and was absurdly gratified to find that her advice was of some use to him . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 25 | The question was of some importance , for if Louis-Napoleon was not the son of Napoleon I 's brother Louis , who became King of Holland during the period of the satellite Bonaparte Kingdoms , then all his pretensions to the Imperial inheritance were null and void . |
| 26 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 27 | It was like some kind of School Of Rock ‘ n ’ Roll . |
| 28 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 29 | It was like some genre picture — The Secret . |
| 30 | The navigator claims it was like some sort of gateway through time but his captain died and he 's obviously space-happy . |