Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 3 | Her husband joined her some months later , but the marriage was by then irrevocably damaged , and they separated soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 9 | Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover , Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale . |
| 10 | When Norman gave him some canvases as a birthday present , Minton was astonished for he was unused to having his generosity returned . |
| 11 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 12 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 13 | ‘ … so the doctor gave him some pills , ’ Martin said , ‘ and when he woke up in the middle of the night there was a beautiful girl on his bed … diaphanous nightie , trailing blonde hair , the lot … ’ |
| 14 | " The doctor gave me some tranquillisers but they have n't helped either . |
| 15 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 16 | When I was seven , Dad bought me some bantams , a cock and two hens , and these supplied me with my own child-sized eggs . |
| 17 | In the second half of the evening Vic Smith showed us some scenes at Crich , the National Tramway museum , plus a couple of shots of trams abroad . |
| 18 | Russell showed us some slides from his collection and asked various questions e.g. ‘ Where is that ? ’ |
| 19 | Bedelia gave me some aspirins and a cloth soaked in cold water and vinegar for my forehead . |