Example sentences of "they [vb past] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 0900hrs the Japanese were back to raid other specified targets , this time they met some opposition in the air , several American fighters were now airborne but the pilots had no combat experience so the Japanese had the advantage . |
| 2 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 3 | And they got some stick for that . |
| 4 | Cathy , Cathy if they got some disease like , I du n no something like I du n no cancer or something like that , would they be more ill than normal ? |
| 5 | In front of a 65,000 crowd , they dropped into an American football game and they got some reception . |
| 6 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 7 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 8 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 9 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 10 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 11 | Though they produced some statuary in Classical and Hellenistic styles they were not copyists . |
| 12 | They stared at each other in silence for a moment , surprised to find that they shared some fragment of a common cause : the unsolved mysteries that troubled them both , though twenty years and half a world apart , were somehow one and the same . |
| 13 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 14 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 15 | Lovins 's adversaries were both numerous and powerful ; and they drew some consolation from his tendency to write prose of baroque opacity , sometimes more than 50 per cent footnotes , and accessible only to the dogged . |
| 16 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 17 | He come in , his eye 's right out here , and it 's streaming with water and he says he 's been to hospital , they dripped some water in it , washed it out must be mine that , what do you reckon ? |
| 18 | McCullough ‘ Then at noon on the 10th , they found some activity on the roof of the meteorological station ; this was unusual , and they knew that something had gone wrong … |
| 19 | In late 1984 Feshaie and a friend left home and simply walked until they found some EPLF fighters . |
| 20 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 21 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 22 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 23 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 24 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 25 | Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning . |
| 26 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 27 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 28 | Doctrinally , the canons were undeniably Calvinist in outlook ; yet at the same time they expressed some ambivalence over the doctrine of predestination , and hinted at a recognition of the potentially damaging consequences of it being inadequately or incorrectly explained to the laity . |
| 29 | When they returned some time during the morning , despite her lack of sleep , Sarella had never felt more wide awake . |
| 30 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |