Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 3 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 4 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 5 | Is n't it time that Silver sorted things out and got us some money to buy players even if it means bringing in another board member . |
| 6 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 7 | if management took an interest in the workforce and allowed them some control over their environment then the workforce would feel less alienated from the workplace ; |
| 8 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 9 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 10 | He agreed , and gave her some ointment . |
| 11 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 12 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 13 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 14 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 15 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru had taken pity on him , and gave him some sweeping-up chores in return for room and board and the occasional session with Fat Juanita . |
| 16 | Felix 's wife began to recite her poetry , and wondered about his air fare , and gave him some coffee . |
| 17 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 18 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 19 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |