Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most he has conceded in some 250 outings for Bangor , an appearance record that tops any Seasider goalkeeper in the last 30 years . |
| 2 | Since then he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides but he has some way to go before becoming a player of real international class . |
| 3 | He has to share in some conservative political opinions . |
| 4 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 5 | But he gets killed in some over-energetic love-play . |
| 6 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 7 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 8 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 9 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 10 | On 4 August , Allitt had prepared a blackcurrant drink for Jonathan and he had remarked on some chalky bits at the bottom of the glass , said Mr Goldring . |