Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
2 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
3 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
4 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
5 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
6 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
7 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
8 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
9 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
10 | I had expected it at some point . |
11 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
12 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
13 | ‘ Seen me through some things . ’ |
14 | ‘ Since then , he 's seen me through some incredible times . |
15 | I had not seen them for some time . |
16 | Do n't forget , I 've seen you in some states , Ruth , practically off your rocker wasting away wrapped up in that sod . |
17 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
18 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
19 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
20 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
21 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
22 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
23 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
24 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
25 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
26 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
27 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
28 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
29 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
30 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |