Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 2 | Do you like me Christmas frock , the , our David sent me some money from America |
| 3 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 4 | It protected their backs , and protruding flanges gave them some cover on both sides . |
| 5 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 6 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 7 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 8 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 9 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 10 | Do n't worry I 'll get this , Ray gave me some money , I 've got ten pounds so |
| 11 | Her husband joined her some months later , but the marriage was by then irrevocably damaged , and they separated soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 12 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 13 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 14 | We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition . |
| 15 | My choice of topic for this evening 's lecture gave me some cause for hesitation . |
| 16 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 17 | When Penry rejoined her some time later Leonora was the centre of a group discussing the rival merits of various sailing craft . |
| 18 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 19 | When his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides appeared , Boswell 's reflections caused him some trouble , including threats of actual bodily harm from people he mentioned . |
| 20 | BOB Phillips of Information Services at Risley sent us some motoring observations which we felt were worth sharing … |
| 21 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 22 | At least she would be sale with Lovat and the knowledge gave him some comfort . |
| 23 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 25 | Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover , Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale . |
| 26 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 27 | When Norman gave him some canvases as a birthday present , Minton was astonished for he was unused to having his generosity returned . |
| 28 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 29 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 30 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |