Example sentences of "[vb past] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What with John 's new fitness programme , and the salutary Atlantic air and everything , I myself expected some kind of halfhearted renewal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 5 | A few hours ago this all made some kind of sense . |
| 6 | He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player . |
| 7 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 8 | She made some kind of gesture . |
| 9 | At the same time , the very seriousness of the crisis and the desperate resort to terrorism that its collapse prompted among the pieds noirs made some kind of speedy settlement seem all the more imperative . |
| 10 | Ken 's clan did n't take kindly to that and rounded on the woman , who sought some kind of defence . |
| 11 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 12 | We got attention straight away , we got some kind of profile very easily . |
| 13 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 14 | It at least described some kind of emotional response from Damian , and that was what she needed more than anything else . |
| 15 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 16 | Most of his music used some kind of literary base , ranging from Thomas Mann to Arthur Schnitzler , though his output also includes a symphony and a concerto . |
| 17 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 18 | They did not travel to Tibet to seek enlightenment in high places and in an alien culture — though one at least knew the capacity of the literal pilgrimage journey to trigger an existential experience of this power , and they all believed some kind of solitude and withdrawal from the normal conditions of social life to be an enabler of such knowledge . |
| 19 | The shiny black sofa , the shabby furniture , the dull suburban road the other side of a forlorn garden , seemed some kind of irony . |
| 20 | I also wanted to get a rhythm through the work which portrayed some kind of dance . |
| 21 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 22 | The word implied some kind of emotional bond and that , she knew , they did n't have . |
| 23 | A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics . |
| 24 | In this case , the DCSL exercised some kind of influence at the point of selection and provided some help with cataloguing and processing of the new resources once purchased . |
| 25 | Adam is known to be broadly correct in stating that Harald exercised some kind of power in Norway , but obviously errs in having Hiring rule all England . |
| 26 | But needed some kind of help : she 'd spoken about it for months before and was utterly thrilled when Jay drawled an interest . |
| 27 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 28 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 29 | There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy . |
| 30 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |