Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 2 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 4 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 5 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 6 | Yeah , okay , I 've just been to Asda so kids are on the way to put the bits of shopping in the van , alright , cos I got 'em some cereal and some bread and I 'll bring up the toaster , they can take the toaster with 'em for a while and oh there is , is there ? |
| 7 | Well I did a quick trip to our Arthur 's cos I lent him some money today . |
| 8 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 9 | Jamie 's mother was still up and she made us some tea . |
| 10 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 11 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 12 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 13 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh yes , I suppose so ’ , he said , and he gave me some tablets . |
| 15 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 16 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 17 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 18 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 19 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 20 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 21 | And it gave it some condition , you know , when I |
| 22 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 23 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 24 | Mind you , it was partly her fault ; they could afford to live without her factory work , but it gave her some company and a feeling of contributing to society . |
| 25 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 26 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 27 | While I got us some bread and butter and milk he sat on the floor with his great head bent , staring at the carpet and tracing its patterns with his forefinger . |
| 28 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |