Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 2 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 3 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 4 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 5 | ( Luke : Luke includes a story about some women who wept for Jesus as he walked on his way to the crucifixion . |
| 6 | Any others , come on , you know just think about some things your receptionist would do . |
| 7 | Yeah , mate , I 've just got in myself change stations but er Richard 's just talking about some kid who died from meningitis but it does n't mean a lot these days does it ? |
| 8 | I doubt if any survey has ever been carried out without the researcher having some regrets at the analysis stage about some questions which could have been phrased better , but the good researcher makes sure in advance that these regrets are as few as possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do you remember I phoned you a week or two ago about some books I wanted ? |
| 11 | Keeps nattering about some demo he decydes is gon na make it for him . |
| 12 | about some lesson we would n't learn . |
| 13 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 14 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
| 15 | They later transferred the letters patent to Casey during some negotiations which eventually came to nothing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Girls from orthodox Muslim and Sikh families feel this most strongly ; they also fear that through some misunderstanding their parents might try to withdraw them from school altogether , cutting off their lifeline to the outside world . |
| 18 | Actually the solution to this minor conundrum is not all that difficult , but it takes us through some steps which are not relevant to our main line of discussion , and so we shall postpone it to an endnote to this chapter ( p. 79 ) . |
| 19 | From this it is deduced that one who is seised must have an estate , and unless he claims through some gift which cuts down the estate then it will be a fee simple … |
| 20 | She looked through some copy which her assistant had left on her desk and crossed out a typing error . |
| 21 | In this cognitive behaviour , what is already apprehended is used as a taking-off point for some idea which is rooted but not present in the evidence being examined . |
| 22 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |
| 23 | And colleagues , a couple of colleagues that , er , few of us appear to appreciate from time to time , and those are the signers who do a very important job for some delegates who are here this week . |
| 24 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 25 | For some garments it may not be possible to resolve all these contradictory needs ( except by selecting a different pattern ! ) |
| 26 | All conventional religious structures would be excluded from this sanction , as they were utterly ineffectual , and presented a useful distraction for some souls who might have been tempted towards esoteric practices . |
| 27 | The result was an uneasy compromise , in which for some meetings there would be a chairperson , in others not . |
| 28 | For some goods it may be appropriate to permit cancellation at no charge provided sufficiently long notice is given . |
| 29 | For some women there are both parents and a partner to care for , making their day revolve around caring . |
| 30 | But for some women it 's the preferred option . |