Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 2 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 4 | A small Palestinian boy led me up some steps to the side of the building and the woman ushered me inside . |
| 5 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 6 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 7 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 8 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 9 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 10 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
| 11 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 12 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 13 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 14 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 15 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 16 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 17 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 18 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 19 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 21 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 22 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
| 23 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |
| 24 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 25 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 26 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 27 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 28 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 29 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 30 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |