Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Kennedy , the Essex Under-17 hockey captain , hit powerfully ( 61 in 64 balls ) , in a drawn match against Berkhamsted and showed some promise as a seamer . |
| 2 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 3 | Mr. Stirling attended the auction and bought some vehicles . |
| 4 | He was tough , though , and at last he opened his eyes and demanded some ale to wet his throat . |
| 5 | His voice quivered with emotion , he sniffed and wiped his eyes and took some time to recover . |
| 6 | Michael Parkinson , who presented the programme and added some credence to it by his presence , said afterwards : ‘ It just shows what a capacity television has for delusion . ’ |
| 7 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 8 | She made herself some tea and took some aspirin and paced about the flat . |
| 9 | Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal . |
| 10 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 11 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 12 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 13 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 14 | I went to Marks and Spencer and stole some clothes , and then I stole some other things — I was short of money . |
| 15 | The government 's anti-religious campaign in connection with the Church 's alleged refusal to donate money and valuables for the Famine crippled the reputation of church aid and made some priests unwilling to become entangled in relief work . |
| 16 | We refuelled , repaired the brakes and emptied some sand out of the aircraft , and the next day we checked the aircraft and weather and did some minor maintenance , returning to the hotel at 3.30 pm . |
| 17 | He scored some great goals but missed some sitters . |
| 18 | Finally I twisted together lengths of red and white yarn to make a rope for the sledge and stitched some stars around the moon to add to the frosty effect . |
| 19 | They moved on to see some fellows working on a lovely Galway hooker raised on sleepers at the waterside , then crossed to a quiet little bar and had some Beamishes . |
| 20 | Afterwards we went to a bar and had some cognac . |
| 21 | He went into an espresso bar and drank some coffee . |
| 22 | But they all counted as pieces on the diplomatic chessboard and enjoyed some sort of self-government ; it is convenient to regard them at this point as comparable entities . |
| 23 | She got drunk at a party at work and gave some guy a blowjob in the storeroom . |
| 24 | I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets . |
| 25 | Dore ( 1973 ) used this framework in a comparison of the contrasting employment systems in British and Japanese industry ; and Kobrin ( 1976 ) empirically tested the convergence thesis itself using cross-national research for more than 90 countries and found some support for it . |
| 26 | She first read Solzhenitsyn during a study trip in England and took some copies back with her . |
| 27 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 28 | The RAF took into its care a lot of youngsters and instilled some qualities into them which we 'd like to see in the youth of today |
| 29 | Bread and got some sausages bit of erm boiled ham which you can pick up on the way through |
| 30 | He wished he had taken Sir John aside , made his peace and offered some refreshment , some claret in one of the Cheapside taverns . |