Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 2 | Richard says he does some songs , but would n't inflict them on a paying audience . |
| 3 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 4 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 5 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 6 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 7 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 8 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
| 9 | The relatives of our electively ventilated organ donors do not feel that we act improperly ; rather , they all consider that the process of organ donation allows them to make some sense of an otherwise inexplicable loss . |
| 10 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 11 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 12 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 13 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 14 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 15 | Yes , we are gon na see if we can get you a pair of shoes Do you want some shoes . |
| 16 | ‘ Flexibility means we have some space to make more frequent visits to the mums who need it , ’ says Jackie . |
| 17 | Liam do you want some dinner ? |
| 18 | The Natural History Museum wanted me to complete some ecology wallcharts of ponds and streams , sponsored by British petroleum , who have a long standing relationship with the Museum , aimed at encouraging and supporting a better understanding of current environmental issues . |
| 19 | The powers of the European Community are not vested in the Community and then , as it were , the Community lets us have some crumbs from the table . |
| 20 | And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers . |
| 21 | So I said to the bloke in the shop have you got some shoes he can put , so they had to do it with his trainers on , but he 's made them extra long cos he 's trainer 's is that much bulkier , so er , I said to , he ca n't do it . |
| 22 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | Adam wants me to collect some things that he forgot , and take them to the hospital . ’ |
| 24 | my travel agent fixed the tickets — i guess he had some problems as we got standing tickets ( ie no seats ) … i saw a poster or something mentioning that tickets for newcastles home games vs us and scum will only be available by mail requests ( sort of a lottery i guess ) with only 2 tickets pr request . |
| 25 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 26 | Turning now to the poems where the I dominates we find some instances of apparent self-abnegation . |
| 27 | His awareness and exploitation of these rights enable him to achieve some success in making criticisms of the Czechoslovakian government . |
| 28 | He has me fetch the plastic bucket from under the sink , then returns to the caravan with the bigger bits in the bucket saying he has some letters to write . |
| 29 | ‘ Here 's the money for the boots and my brother Dai wants you to repair some shoes . |
| 30 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |