Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 2 | Mr Y wrote me a note , ‘ would I make some notes on her , there is a possibility of her going into the unit ’ ( withdrawal unit for disruptive pupils ) . |
| 3 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 4 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 5 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 6 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 7 | I made some mistakes — for example not realising that the maintenance would be quite hard work . |
| 8 | I made some bets and they came good . |
| 9 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 10 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 11 | Then on the opposite page I saw ‘ insurance ’ and thought that looks interesting , so I made some enquiries . |
| 12 | So if I made some guesses you might be able to answer . ’ |
| 13 | but then you can , you can specialize you see , I mean some nurses go into the theatre all the time once they 've qualified |
| 14 | I would n't have gone rush I mean some mothers have gone rushing up the school and complained . |
| 15 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 16 | I think , I mean some unions might want the branch secretaries but some might want all branch officials , some might want all shop stewards or senior shop stewards or convenors or whatever terminology we have , have in the respective unions for , for their positions . |
| 17 | cos I mean some places that are fairly big th the , if you 've got hundred in they just , it looks empty do n't it ? |
| 18 | I mean some evenings it would be quite quiet and maybe just the next-door neighbour |
| 19 | I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside |
| 20 | It 's we it it 's I mean some days are better than others . |
| 21 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 22 | I mean some lyrics are pretty inane , are n't they . |
| 23 | I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England . |
| 24 | I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England . |
| 25 | I 've got no idea but I mean some pictures are very expensive |
| 26 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 27 | ‘ I bring some presents : food , ’ — his eyes twinkled — ‘ and whisky . |
| 28 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 29 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 30 | Before I begin to read I push some boxes across to the place where Summerchild sat facing me and dust them to make him a desk and chair . |