Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 2 | We go on walks we play some games , |
| 3 | I want some twiglets I want some twiglets . |
| 4 | When you came back down from the mountains you made some recordings that to this very day have a unique atmosphere about them — the Metamorphosen , the Brahms Requiem — but when you went to England to work with Legge 's Philharmonia there was an added interest to your music-making : the enormous repertory you managed to acquire and record . |
| 5 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 6 | Leaving their nest-holes they have some way to go before the sea can provide them with a refuge . |
| 7 | To hide their clear outlines they need some kind of disruptive markings . |
| 8 | Most years he spent some time in Anagni or Segni , his home region ; otherwise Rome was his main place of residence . |
| 9 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |
| 10 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 11 | If you just make random proteins a hundred amino acids they have some kind of catalytic activity — not much , but some . |
| 12 | I know , but I mean like I 've got a lot of bollocks I 've some bollocks on it about erm er and shit like that . |
| 13 | Right , so your customer has the menus you get some feedback , and the feedback you might need to modify your product which is really what David 's just said . |
| 14 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 15 | After leaving the Dardanelles he spent some time in Salonika and Egypt , before being posted as brigadier-general ( November 1915 ) on the staff of the reserve corps led by Sir Hubert Gough [ q.v. ] on the western front . |
| 16 | As we shook hands I felt some embarrassment ; he had been sacked from his post in the English Literature and Language Department of the University of East Anglia the previous year . |
| 17 | Rather than explore all the possible pathways we need some method of ordering the search . |
| 18 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 19 | Each had its own project to attend to … checking on nesting boxes they had some months earlier put among the trees … on the stream … recording the height of various trees planted the autumn before … and there was also some weeding to be done , as always , among the ranks of young trees . |