Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread .
2 ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas .
3 When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club .
4 Maria did n't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship .
5 Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing .
6 I hope you found some gold !
7 And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling .
8 Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education .
9 He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them .
10 Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her .
11 Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me …
12 Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second
13 Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her .
14 Because he had taught school before becoming a Fed he had some experience of kids .
15 But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’
16 ‘ She thinks she saw some lights in the sky once .
17 You may remember I spent some time in Paris — not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow , chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon .
18 I could see you needed some time by yourself .
19 Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day .
20 When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams .
21 The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’
22 I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out .
23 You know I got some wrapping paper that one ?
24 I know we saw some tripe did n't we ?
25 I know we bought some meat in , you know , thank you , it 's very light I put it in this way .
26 the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham
27 I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long .
28 Could have sworn I saw some tits in there today .
29 I suppose you made some noise ; did nobody call out , ‘ Is that you , Matthew ? ’ or something of the sort ? ’
30 I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ?
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