Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 2 | One doctor did not come , and one did , plus two medical students and I asked some of my friends too so it was quite a mix of age and stage but went very well . |
| 3 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 4 | I made some comment and he bit my head off . |
| 5 | I made some Tommy-sized bets and ate very well in the ( literally ) below-stairs bar , and in general walked around , race-card in hand , binoculars around neck , exactly as usual . |
| 6 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 7 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 8 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 9 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 10 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 11 | I made some mistakes — for example not realising that the maintenance would be quite hard work . |
| 12 | By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up . |
| 13 | I made some toast and a cup of tea . |
| 14 | He sat broodingly beside the fire while I made some coffee . |
| 15 | I made some bets and they came good . |
| 16 | I made some more — the same . |
| 17 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 18 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 19 | Well , I made some ooh a few years ago . |
| 20 | I made some deposit money back on as many as I could carry . |
| 21 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 22 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's time I made some formal introductions , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ There was a great team spirit right through the party , and I made some very lasting friendships . |
| 25 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 26 | Then on the opposite page I saw ‘ insurance ’ and thought that looks interesting , so I made some enquiries . |
| 27 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 28 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 29 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 30 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |