Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 2 | In the long run he learned some hard lessons and improved his grasp of what good executive legislative relations require in the American pluralist system . |
| 3 | During the war he took some of the most enduring images of Paris under the occupation . |
| 4 | After a moment he dropped some coins from his pocket into the hat and stepped back . |
| 5 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 6 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw some wirelesses in a shop window . |
| 7 | For him , rugby football is an absolute religion , so he goes out and he does his own thing , and my goodness he says some forthright things , too — marvellous ! |
| 8 | Oh , my goodness he needs some exercise does n't he ? |
| 9 | McColvin 's early work Theory of book selection for public libraries , which postulated demand as the principal criterion for provision , is repudiated in an article he published some 30 years later . |
| 10 | But in a two-hour interview with reporters of the Scottish Daily Record he listed some fifteen details of the layout of the Ross bungalow and what was in it , information not mentioned at Meehan 's trial or in the newspapers , and which he could only have known if he had been there , all of which Mr Ross confirmed ( ‘ Colour of bedroom quilts was pink ’ , ‘ A light tan suit was in the bedroom wardrobe ’ , ‘ An alarm clock with black face and luminous hands stood in the hatchway to the kitchen ’ , etc . ) . |
| 11 | husband he wants some beans . |
| 12 | One day he met some sea canoeists who had crossed Luce Bay . |
| 13 | Every day he rubbed some ointment on his leg . |
| 14 | While I was talking to Metsola one day he swallowed some medicine . |
| 15 | More importantly , by castigating conductive education he obscures some very important implications that the method has for the West . |
| 16 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 17 | That was his way , of course , always ; but on this occasion he had some cause for it . |
| 18 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 19 | And on the facing page he breathes some more of Shakespeare 's words : ‘ To return to Gavin 's or not . |
| 20 | Dale 's purpose was to elaborate on the supposedly close friendship between Tschudi and Handel , on which subject he provides some lively anecdotes . |
| 21 | With dangerous calm he spooned some of the material on to his plate , raised a forkful and began to chew slowly . |
| 22 | He stopped at a gate , and in large red letters on the middle bar of the gate he painted some words from the Bible : |
| 23 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 24 | Just in case he chucks some out . |
| 25 | Of course he acquired some better habits , such as that great liking for poetry and music . |
| 26 | Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy . |
| 27 | And on this farm he had some ducks eei eei Oh |
| 28 | The blast of heat from the wall of flaming rubble he saw some twenty yards away , forced him to jerk his head back and retreat to the door leading to the four cells . |
| 29 | He was particularly embarrassing on an occasion when Jennie Lee was sitting alongside him and in his groping fashion he made some amorous overtures . |
| 30 | In the light of the torch he removed some of the luxury items from the cardboard box and put in the milk . |