Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from .
2 True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud .
3 During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone .
4 I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago .
5 When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down .
6 When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills .
7 Last month I gave you some homework .
8 Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 .
9 I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists .
10 I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest .
11 As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known .
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