Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 3 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 5 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 6 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 8 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 9 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 10 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 11 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 12 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 13 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 14 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 15 | This involves me in some paperwork , which , however tedious … |
| 16 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 17 | This clearly elevates me to some sort of status in his mind , although I personally could n't give a shit . |
| 18 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 19 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 20 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 21 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 22 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 23 | As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C . |
| 24 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 25 | These five steps are a counsel of perfection , but most surveys can include them to some degree . |
| 26 | We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 28 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 29 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 30 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |