Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 2 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 3 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 4 | Keeps nattering about some demo he decydes is gon na make it for him . |
| 5 | about some lesson we would n't learn . |
| 6 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 7 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 8 | Yes , but when you , when you say it 's the end of time it 's , you get some people saying yes it 's always the end , for some country it 's always er collapses or what me have you , it 's always then for some government or country |
| 9 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 10 | It was entitled ‘ The Condemned Cell ? ’ and I cut it out and for some while it was on my desk . |
| 11 | Even as Rachel flitted before us down passageways and galleries , I could feel other presences , as if ghosts hiding in the shadows watched her pass then trailed behind us , looking for some weakness they could exploit . |
| 12 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 13 | Half an hour later she was dealing with a small crisis that had cropped up and had forgotten all about Mr Massingham as she sent Jimmy on an urgent trip for some paperwork she needed . |
| 14 | Erm and he started coming to this centre he he came to the centre once or twice with my other brother for some advice I think , welfare right advice . |
| 15 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 16 | Here , we move to a further degree of abstraction , since things are no longer of interest for some essence they may possess but for their exchangeable aspects . |
| 17 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 18 | When one of the children asks his mam for some coffee she says , " We ca n't afford coffee any more , son . " |
| 19 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 20 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 21 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 22 | In his introduction to the environmental policy document which will be issued to employees in 1993 , Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell explains : ‘ For some time we have recognised the need for a policy to increase awareness , to deal with environmental issues and to implement systems which ensure the Company complies with all relevant legislation and manages the essential attitudinal and behavioural changes that are likely to affect business operations . |
| 23 | For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 25 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 26 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 27 | So for some time She-She and I talked very seriously about the future Princess of Wales . |
| 28 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 29 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 30 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |