Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just say it was some revolutionary group |
| 2 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
| 3 | I hope I 'm some good . |
| 4 | Others believed it was some unknown , but benevolent , cosmic force . |
| 5 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 6 | No , she jumped on my bed and when she gets on top of you she thinks she 's some little baby . |
| 7 | You 'd have thought he was some fat cardinal from Rome . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 10 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 11 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 12 | Then he lowered his gaze and observed with dark humour , ‘ The receptionist probably thought you were some irate girlfriend come to bring me to book about something or other . ’ |
| 13 | Damian Flint , the man she admired so much , thought she was some cheap little floozy he could get into bed while taking Swift at the same time . |
| 14 | Oh , God , I bet he was some married creep who did n't want to know . |
| 15 | At first I think most of us thought it was some electrical appliance . |
| 16 | I thought it was some massive mansion . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 's some great subconscious warning or anything . ’ |
| 18 | I wish I was some 'andsome gent 's lady friend , but I do n't 'ave the looks really , I 've just got a sort of orphanage face — here , what 's goin' on ? |
| 19 | Stop thinking you 're some great displaced intellectual all the time . |
| 20 | Thinking it was some practical joke by Vigilant , our engineers went to accuse Vigilant 's crew , but noticed smoke pouring our of our engine room . |
| 21 | The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat . |
| 22 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 23 | Ye tink you 're some major aut'ority on te Irish race ? ’ |
| 24 | For a moment he let himself imagine he was some great explorer about to enter a hostile , unknown land on which his name would later be stamped for all history . |