Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] some " in BNC.

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1 I realize you 're a trained psychologist but give me some details . ’
2 ‘ Not I , ’ said the old gentleman and poured himself some tea .
3 By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol .
4 Earlier that afternoon , Katherine had stood before the French doors and watched her some and daughter playing in the snow outside .
5 Meet the new breed of enchantress , the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female perspective .
6 I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen .
7 When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week .
8 It is also possible to arrange with taxi-drivers to drop you at one point and collect you some hours later from another .
9 At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats .
10 After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news .
11 So why do n't you use your common sense and show them some respect ?
12 In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money .
13 Again the simplest way to gain a clear picture is to divide a sheet of paper into two columns and ask yourself some obvious questions .
14 Mother also went with me to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury 's wife , Mrs Fisher , talk to young wives and give them some advice on the repair of their families after the separations many of them had suffered .
15 I said I 'd try and see Steph one day next week and take her some maternity clothes and erm I 'll wash some of these baby things .
16 Before we start Scottish questions , I remind Members from Scottish constituencies that , as is my practice , I shall seek to call those who were not called last time and give them some preference .
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