Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has had some disappointment or failure . |
| 2 | I 'd done some wedding stationery for a friend , and I 'd painted two hundred and twenty pieces , er erm , sheets of wedding stationery for her , with erm , bud roses and things , I think I might have shown you one , actually . |
| 3 | I 'd recorded some background music for her too and it did n't sound as if she 'd added to her collection . |
| 4 | I 'd saved some money , grown heartily sick of London , fast food and maybe people , too , and I was getting out . |
| 5 | I 'd swapped some toy cars for a set of poker dice in a red leather case . |
| 6 | He does he agrees w I said to him I 'd , I 'd used some hair thickening shampoo , yeah ? |
| 7 | I 'd got some money . ’ |
| 8 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 9 | and , I 'd got some collecting to do . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd left some stuff here . |
| 11 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 12 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 13 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 14 | The item was used and I understand aroused some interest . |
| 15 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 16 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 17 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 18 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 19 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 20 | I had done some turning before and with help and advice I soon felt quite competent turning out my arm stumps , legs and stretcher rails . |
| 21 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 22 | Now she would discover I had stolen some brandy , and put water in the bottle . |
| 23 | And I knew that I had shown some ability to fight my comer . |
| 24 | In point of fact I had enjoyed some experience in radio network production before arriving at CBR , Vancouver . |
| 25 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
| 26 | ‘ I had purchased some land called Dalblair ; and , as in Scotland it is customary to distinguish landed men by the name of their estates , I had thus two titles , Dalblair and Young Auchinleck . |
| 27 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 28 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 29 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 30 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |