Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 2 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 4 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
| 6 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 7 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 8 | That got me doing some serious thinking . |
| 9 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 10 | We asked them to put some |
| 11 | That had changed tremendously , so easy it was to get into the country , that I went in and out of the border about three times , because having got into Yugoslavia , I realized I had some Italian currency , so I drove out again , spent my Italian currency , and drove back again . |
| 12 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 13 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 14 | As the hon. Gentleman said , he let me know some of his particular areas of interest in advance . |
| 15 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 16 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 17 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 18 | Hardy Hall put you in a rather higher position and invited you to consider some of the long-term implications of the proposed change as well as the immediate problems . |
| 19 | Thus Federconsorzi found itself owning some unprofitable bits of Italy 's food industry , such as a milk and cheese producer called Polenghi Lombarda and a jam company called Massa Lombarda . |
| 20 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 21 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 22 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 23 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 24 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 25 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 26 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 27 | He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in . |
| 28 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 29 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 30 | At the teacher 's suggestion I then found myself colouring some swing tickets at happened to be in my knitting bag and attaching these to a very poor piece of knitting . |