Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day Mary took Frankie , Liza and me to the shops to buy us some new clothes for the wedding . |
| 2 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 3 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 4 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 5 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 6 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 8 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 9 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 10 | truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha ha ha . |
| 11 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha . |
| 12 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha ha . |
| 13 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work . |
| 14 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work . |
| 15 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 16 | Valdemar was extremely helpful and took the next day off work to show us some of the local birds . |
| 17 | There is a legitimate fear of ‘ straitjacket-ing ’ the nursery/early years curriculum to fit what some see as the constraints of a national curriculum and the requirements of the testing programme . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm gon na get Mickey to give us some money ! |
| 19 | Do you want daddy to do you some bread ? |
| 20 | A little while later , Hugo left his friends and went upstairs to the room to take her some food and drink . |
| 21 | We 've put together a fabulous selection of new hairstyles to give you some sparkling inspiration . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 23 | In both editions of this book , I made a decision to use what some linguists have called ‘ the visibility strategy ’ , or ‘ positive language ’ , in which all generics are feminine : she , her . |
| 24 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 25 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 26 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 27 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 28 | While Bob Lamb was longing for Sarah Butler to pay him some attention , he was unaware that Martha Oaks felt the same way about him . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , if you must know , that I 'm just waiting and hoping for the chance to marry you some day . ’ |
| 30 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |