Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] some " 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 ‘ You must let me introduce you to some of the people we know .
3 ‘ Let me introduce you to some of the other guests . ’
4 I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’
5 Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
6 comment if I asked you for some advice ?
7 In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me .
8 I got them in some shop in Covent Garden .
9 The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand .
10 I have n't been able to make myself believe I hate you for some time now , Luke . ’
11 I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields .
12 I helped myself to some of the raw still-warm liver he was offering , realizing that I was being especially honoured as a guest .
13 I helped myself to some more red caviare and that wonderful dark sour bread , and watched the cashier noisily adding the takings on an abacus .
14 I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said .
15 That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf .
16 I hold you in some affection , child , ’ came the reply .
17 On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek .
18 but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold
19 My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed .
20 and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm
21 I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it .
22 Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity .
23 I have a mind , why ca n't I use it to some good in a way that will give me satisfaction if nothing else ?
24 I believe everybody at some point needs support .
25 I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need .
26 I discuss it at some length in Chapter 6 .
27 Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house ,
28 I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha !
29 I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about .
30 Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him .
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