Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] 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 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 .
9 He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job .
10 I told you she 'd sent me some cast-offs and they 're much too grand for me to wear .
11 I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’
12 President , Congress , we move this motion , er I 'd just like give you some examples .
13 I thought your going to give her some flowers ?
14 Ah perhaps they 're going to give me some vitamins .
15 But I 'm hoping we are going to give them some problems as well . ’
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I 've got to get him some plants from that tub have n't I ?
19 I 'd like to ask you some questions .
20 ‘ We 'd like to ask you some questions , ’ Sabrina said .
21 ‘ I 'm now going to ask you some questions . ’
22 ‘ I was going to bring you some flowers , ’ he said awkwardly , ‘ but the flower stall was closed at the station . ’
23 Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 ‘ I should have brought you some flowers — ’
27 All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons .
28 He showed her into the bedroom and put her weekend bag on the bed , and then went to get her some towels from the linen cupboard in the hall .
29 In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) .
30 Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed .
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