Example sentences of "[pers pn] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give them some story about how an unexpected delay saved my life . |
| 2 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 3 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 4 | I 'll give them some cheese on toast . |
| 5 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 6 | It protected their backs , and protruding flanges gave them some cover on both sides . |
| 7 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 8 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 9 | As their final experience before the end of their PGCE year , we hope to inform them fully about the role languages play in industry and even , perhaps , during their Week in industry attachment , give them some idea of how language learning relates to their immediate environment . |
| 10 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 11 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |
| 12 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 13 | Now , now that all was lost , lost too was the vanity of the bulging notebook , the diversity of material , the forward-looking pleasure of unpacking my treasures and giving them some kind of independent life . |
| 14 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 15 | See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test . |
| 16 | The child has behaved itself and you want to reward the child then you er you give them some kind of er a chocolate bar or something , or a handful of Smarties or something . |
| 17 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 18 | Given the new licensing laws for teachers I shall give them some experience of the post 16+ area before embarking on the lower school work with which under the former arrangement I would normally have begun . |
| 19 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 20 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 21 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 22 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 23 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 24 | I was careful to find them some distance from Upper Thames Street . |
| 25 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 26 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
| 27 | if management took an interest in the workforce and allowed them some control over their environment then the workforce would feel less alienated from the workplace ; |
| 28 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 29 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 30 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |