Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 2 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 3 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 4 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 5 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 6 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 7 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 8 | Presidents in their dealings with congress had to cope with some extraordinarily powerful leaders . |
| 9 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 10 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 11 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
| 12 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 13 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 14 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 15 | But the north west and the west coast did get some sunny spells , while the rest of the country had to contend with some patchy rain . |
| 16 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 17 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 18 | I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it . |
| 19 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 20 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 21 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 22 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 23 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 24 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
| 25 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 26 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 27 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 28 | More sophisticated , more polite , perhaps ; but ‘ easier ’ suggested that I had to pass through some ordeal . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |