Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 2 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 3 | I I 'll need to give you some drops to use in that |
| 4 | ‘ I must confess the fire at the manor has caused me some problems , ’ admitted Christian . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ Mother has sent you some cakes and milk . |
| 6 | ‘ Mother has sent you some cakes and milk . |
| 7 | He wants to ask you some questions about the murder of a man here last night , ’ one of the men told me . |
| 8 | forgive me Mr if I want to ask somebody some questions about the brochure and er the layout and so on and I find out Counsel has n't , I gather from Mr that Mr would be the person I ought to ask , is that right ? |
| 9 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 10 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 11 | I told you she 'd sent me some cast-offs and they 're much too grand for me to wear . |
| 12 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 13 | President , Congress , we move this motion , er I 'd just like give you some examples . |
| 14 | I thought your going to give her some flowers ? |
| 15 | Ah perhaps they 're going to give me some vitamins . |
| 16 | But I 'm hoping we are going to give them some problems as well . ’ |
| 17 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 18 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |
| 19 | I 've got to get him some plants from that tub have n't I ? |
| 20 | I 'd like to ask you some questions . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd like to ask you some questions , ’ Sabrina said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm now going to ask you some questions . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was going to bring you some flowers , ’ he said awkwardly , ‘ but the flower stall was closed at the station . ’ |
| 24 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 25 | Your check list should have given you some words , but maybe not in different positions , so you may need to ask your language helper for some more words . |
| 26 | The sorry story began on 18th March 1612 , when a teenage beggar girl , Alizon Device , flew into a rage when a pedlar refused to give her some pins . |
| 27 | However , he will have noted what some banks have said in recent days about their attitude to this matter . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have brought you some flowers — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 30 | There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ . |