Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 32 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 33 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 34 | I wish I was some 'andsome gent 's lady friend , but I do n't 'ave the looks really , I 've just got a sort of orphanage face — here , what 's goin' on ? |
| 35 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 36 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 37 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 38 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 39 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 40 | While I was some metres away from it , the ruined door of the tower was flung wide , and the monster emerged . |
| 41 | You do n't have to go on and on , as if I was some silly kid . |
| 42 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 43 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 44 | Three figures , their faces muffled by cloaks and broad-brimmed hats , seized me and began to beat me as if I was some dog . |
| 45 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |
| 46 | It is a thing that is only important if you are some sort of lonely fan who loves The Wedding Present and thinks that David is a lovely , sincere person . |
| 47 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 48 | Eight point two million customers of which I assume that you are some of those . |
| 49 | Do you know what you 're saying you are , you are some stupid |
| 50 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 51 | Stop thinking you 're some great displaced intellectual all the time . |
| 52 | All the kids at school think you 're some kind of heretic . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ You 're some piece of work , Mrs Sutherland , you know that ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ You 're some lady , ’ he said . |
| 55 | You 're some tough guy , my love . ’ |
| 56 | Ye tink you 're some major aut'ority on te Irish race ? ’ |
| 57 | Well you 're some guard dog are n't you ? |
| 58 | Any other , Do man come at me like you 're some typhoon Yeah listen to t what , what music do you like Wolf ? |
| 59 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |
| 60 | After soaping her every nook and cranny , he rinsed her , and kissed her body reverently as if she were some deity to be worshipped and adored . |