Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 2 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 3 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 4 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 5 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 6 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 7 | Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems . |
| 8 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 9 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 10 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 11 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 12 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 14 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 15 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 16 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 17 | ‘ But I was pleased that I showed some fighting spirit . ’ |
| 18 | I think her principal objection to me was that I exercised some influence over him , which was at odds with her own belief that all such influence should be exercised through her . |
| 19 | Though packed with information , the facts are presented critically such that I found some sections fascinating — eg the section on factors influencing the performance of liquid-liquid extraction coils . |
| 20 | On a recent visit to the Midland Bank in Southampton to ask about opening a current account I was told that I needed some form of indentification . |
| 21 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 22 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 23 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 24 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago . |
| 25 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago . |
| 26 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 27 | I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 28 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 29 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 30 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |