Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 2 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 3 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 4 | I only just remembered to put some clothes on . |
| 5 | ( 'Sorry I 'm late — I just had to confirm some bookings on our European tour . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 7 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 8 | We always tried to get some payment to them before a term started |
| 9 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 10 | But he still tried to maintain some shreds of panache . |
| 11 | Health information was broadcast by a much-loved Radio Doctor , whose down-to-earth advice always seemed to contain some reference to bowels . |
| 12 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 13 | On Friday morning she always went to take some food to Kitty Dawson . |
| 14 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |
| 15 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 16 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 17 | The engine driver also gave control some idea of how long it would take to clean the fire and raise sufficient steam for him to take his train forward . |
| 18 | They also wished to achieve some redistribution of income in favour of families , particularly poor families . |
| 19 | The British also had to send some aid to maintain their credibility and therefore their influence as allies of the United States . |
| 20 | Egypt also stood to lose some $200 million because of the devaluation of Gulf currencies , in addition to $500 million in back pay owed by Iraq to Egyptian workers , and $150-200 million owed by the Iraqi government to Egyptian companies . |
| 21 | The young people also wanted to have some enjoyment in their scarce free time and escape from the contradictions of their ‘ privileged ’ position . |
| 22 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 23 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 24 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 25 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 26 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |
| 27 | With £200 outstanding , he fully expected to pay some interest over the month , but was alarmed when it came to £29 . |
| 28 | She handed him his dressing gown and then knelt to add some coal on the fire . |
| 29 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 30 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |