Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 2 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 3 | I should go to the shops and get me some , get myself some actually . |
| 4 | " I 'll give him an injection and leave you some sulphonamide — that 's what Mr Farnon uses in these cases . " |
| 5 | I realize you 're a trained psychologist but give me some details . ’ |
| 6 | Oliver would n't understand that it was nicer of Dad to make him a toy than to buy him some dull old thing from a shop . |
| 7 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 8 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 9 | We certainly intend to enjoy the hunting and bag ourselves some of Cochin-China 's rare game animals . |
| 10 | Again the simplest way to gain a clear picture is to divide a sheet of paper into two columns and ask yourself some obvious questions . |
| 11 | Then , with the approval of Rosanne — by then Mrs Mansell — he sold their home and bought himself some more races . |
| 12 | The old man had sunk to his knees , so , ignoring the Blackshirt on the pavement , I tried to rescue what I could from my medicine case and give him some first aid . |
| 13 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 14 | Meet the new breed of enchantress , the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female perspective . |
| 15 | Come hell or high water , he 'd always managed to get his mother a present and to send her some flowers and a card . |
| 16 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 17 | If I were you I 'd schlepp down to the disco and get yourself some trade , dear , otherwise you 'll burst ! ’ |
| 18 | Oh I 'd like you to go and , into town and get me some tomorrow |
| 19 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 20 | It is also possible to arrange with taxi-drivers to drop you at one point and collect you some hours later from another . |
| 21 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 22 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 23 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 24 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 25 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 26 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 27 | Penry took out his wallet and handed her some notes . |
| 28 | ‘ Not I , ’ said the old gentleman and poured himself some tea . |
| 29 | Are you going to sell your customer 's foreign currency forward , take out a currency loan or cover it some other way ? |
| 30 | At a meeting in Newcastle , the Committee of Coal Owners in Newcastle voted in favour both of Stephenson 's claim for priority and to give him some money for it . |