Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Luckily I had some microworm available — they were far too small for the usual Mbuna first foods — and they were soon gaining in size .
2 Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work .
3 As the winter wore on I did some hard thinking about Rome .
4 In the section below I make some observations on male-orientation in functionalist theory .
5 ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening .
6 Perhaps I acknowledge some former claim .
7 I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with .
8 and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know .
9 So I had some , Claire bought this Greek wine , and it was sweet , and I
10 Yeah you said ge get me some that 's what you said , so I thought some is more than one and we got you two .
11 By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up .
12 SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up .
13 and then er I thought oh I might as well put some veg in , you know , so I put some veg in , so when we , I says oh I 'll do this , I 'll do this stew , you know , nearly to finish it like , and erm when we come in we 'll have a meal ready for us , it were right nice coming into it meal ready
14 Well the cochineal was a bit dry so I put some water in and boof
15 I liked the sound he was getting and so I got some and they are the ones I 'm still using now . ’
16 So I got some of them velour curtains but I 've got the wrong size I 'll have to take them back
17 So I make some fresh coffee .
18 So I invent some more : ‘ I ai n't proud of it .
19 but even so I think some
20 One day , not even fish arrived , and so I bought some of the goat 's meat offered .
21 Well they had n't got any Walnut Whips in Sainsbury 's so I bought some eggs , so .
22 So I bought some black plastic bags fifty pence .
23 I 've experienced that myself , so I have some sympathy for that reaction .
24 I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software .
25 So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay .
26 Erm , this management letter was distributed er , to all of us , so I suppose some of us at least will have read it .
27 So I borrowed some money and bought a store of my own , a tiny place , a cigar store , but in the right part of town , and in the right part of the right part of town .
28 So I need some help on that .
29 And when I put that plant in I wanted some I wanted some well more or less labourers to work wi work with the fitters .
30 So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns .
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