Example sentences of "[pers pn] some [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , she 's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury , and she wants Hayley to go back . |
| 4 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 5 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 6 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 7 | I 'll give you some graphs in a minute Now for those of you I w I what I want to get across to you is the concept of correlation , positive correlation , negative correlation . |
| 8 | I 'll make you some dinner in a bit . |
| 9 | Now listen to what we 're going to do now , we 're going to mummy 'll get you some dinner in a minute , are you hungry ? |
| 10 | When you 're preparing what you 're going to say , use notes , and I 've given you some guidance in the handout on using notes . |
| 11 | Unfortunately I am completely tied up with filming during the whole of June but I will certainly make the effort to visit you some time in July . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll see you some time in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll get you some food in a few minutes , but first let's have your shoe and stocking off . ’ |
| 14 | So do , erm I 'll get you some butter in a minute . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Right I 'll give her some paper in a minute . |
| 17 | A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did . |
| 18 | Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment . |
| 19 | FORGET the time recorded by Clydal Pal in the opening heats of the Ulster Derby ( 550 ) and give him some support in the first semi-final at Dunmore Stadium tomorrow night . |
| 20 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 21 | Kendall was able to check his results to an extent , since much of his data related to villages whose location was known , and this gave him some confidence in suggesting the locations of the lost villages . |
| 22 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 23 | The public enthusiasm of New York 's governor , Mario L. Cuomo , for his candidacy suggested that Kerrey was acceptable to northern liberals , while his farm state background could give him some appeal in the South , and his war record , glamour and relative youth were also seen as advantages . |
| 24 | She had always known that she must get away from him some time in order to reach Lori , and there could n't be a better opportunity . |
| 25 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 26 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 27 | All this gives it some importance in bringing the workforce to acceptance of the new work disciplines of the industrial revolution . |
| 28 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 29 | Had he some interest in the rector 's daughter ? |
| 30 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |