Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 3 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 4 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 5 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 6 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 7 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 8 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 10 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 11 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 12 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |
| 13 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 14 | I made you some notes , as well . ’ |
| 15 | He handed me some leaflets and magazines about the French Army , one of which was Képi Blanc , the monthly journal of the Foreign Legion . |
| 16 | Chris Lawrence , in working with a class of London children , showed them some photographs of ‘ dancers ’ whom the children were later to meet and instruct on the movement of animals . |
| 17 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 18 | Her husband joined her some months later , but the marriage was by then irrevocably damaged , and they separated soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 19 | Penry took out his wallet and handed her some notes . |
| 20 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 21 | Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover , Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale . |
| 22 | In the second half of the evening Vic Smith showed us some scenes at Crich , the National Tramway museum , plus a couple of shots of trams abroad . |
| 23 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 24 | Russell showed us some slides from his collection and asked various questions e.g. ‘ Where is that ? ’ |
| 25 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 26 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 27 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 28 | The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton , she 'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy . |
| 29 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 30 | She brought me some oranges from my orchard but I could n't eat them . |