Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
2 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
3 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
4 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
5 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
6 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
7 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
8 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
9 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
10 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
11 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
12 | I discussed them in some detail in the chapter on event planning . |
13 | I did it with some stuff before |
14 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
15 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
16 | In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned . |
17 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
18 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
19 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
20 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
21 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
22 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
23 | From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation . |
24 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
25 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
26 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
27 | Chicago , Chicago — so good , they named it after some onions . |
28 | They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt . |
29 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
30 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |