Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 2 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 3 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 4 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 5 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 6 | I refer my honourable friends to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 7 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 8 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 9 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 10 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 11 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 12 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 13 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 14 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 15 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 16 | ‘ As a young child I pinched some prunings from my dad 's forsythia and planted them , ’ explains Ric of his beginnings . |
| 17 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 18 | When you came back down from the mountains you made some recordings that to this very day have a unique atmosphere about them — the Metamorphosen , the Brahms Requiem — but when you went to England to work with Legge 's Philharmonia there was an added interest to your music-making : the enormous repertory you managed to acquire and record . |
| 19 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 20 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 21 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 22 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 23 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 24 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 25 | The , my eye I got some drops from the chemist cos my eye was bad . |
| 26 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 27 | I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding . |
| 28 | A Wave washed ashore and within its rushing sound I heard some hope from periodical land — that most finicky home to all media junkies everywhere.Rather than offer up another fascinating glimpse of some consumable , this Wave challenged me to look into myself and wonder whether organic intelligence is what we should be seeking.This story , Inner Space Outer Space has all the trappings of a mystery thriller , except the mystery is ancient and it is us . |
| 29 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 30 | Well on er Monday we had some chocolate cake , yesterday we had scones cream and strawberry jam , and today we find on the desert trolley , just for you as a big treat , all this week at this time every single day on Trent F M , a little bit of something nice and naughty , but we do n't mind . |