Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’
2 ‘ Can you lend me some money ? ’ she asked .
3 ‘ You said you might lend me some money .
4 Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ?
5 ‘ Can you spare me some time ? ’ said Nicholson .
6 That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’
7 To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity .
8 Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so .
9 mum , mum , can you buy me some wrestling cards ?
10 Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two
11 But she 'll need me some day .
12 She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother .
13 shall we go and buy you some juice okay , cos we 've really ran out of juice this morning did n't he ?
14 That 'll buy you some time .
15 It was likely , more than likely , that Alan Markby might buy her some kind of Christmas present .
16 Perhaps we would need it some time .
17 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 .
18 ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers .
19 At least it would give them some idea , at least they would now understand how things were .
20 I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’
21 Given the new licensing laws for teachers I shall give them some experience of the post 16+ area before embarking on the lower school work with which under the former arrangement I would normally have begun .
22 That he won a points decision against the Californian Mark Wills at Wembley will give them some reassurance that the British heavyweight champion could give a reasonable account of himself against an opponent who will not crumple easily .
23 Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er .
24 This is Local Government Information unit , which is funded from all of the Local Authority Associations , and they have taken an interest in the passing of the environmental bills and they ran , we do give them some help , which we did .
25 I 'll give them some cheese on toast .
26 Mum it 's pussy cat , pussy cat have some pie for , where mummy do n't give them some pie and pussy cat , pussy cat up in London , there 's two about pussy cats
27 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 .
28 Now , it 's obviously a bit of a gamble , we might give them some money , we might not get anything from it , but we might get a major feature film , or a major television series , which would be very worthwhile indeed .
29 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 .
30 and let's give them some encouragement by awarding them the goal of the week … it was their first against Wycombe Wanderers on Tuesday night scored by centre forward Chris Pike … we want more
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