Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 2 | but then you can , you can specialize you see , I mean some nurses go into the theatre all the time once they 've qualified |
| 3 | I would n't have gone rush I mean some mothers have gone rushing up the school and complained . |
| 4 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 5 | I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside |
| 6 | never , I mean some people go around just like twins do n't they ? |
| 7 | as far as part time work goes and supply work , because erm that work is sort of quite spasmodic I suppose it can be I mean some people do a regular amount some do bits here and there . |
| 8 | but erm you know I mean some people do actually get total , totally pissed off with the university and the course and everything and , and decide to chuck it in , you know , er in which case |
| 9 | Yeah that 's right , I mean some people do n't |
| 10 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 11 | Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that . |
| 12 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 13 | I mean some people have a knack . |
| 14 | Oh no , I know that , I know that I mean some people find some things easy , some people find some things hard , do n't they ? |
| 15 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |
| 17 | Flavia said , ‘ I got some work done today — I think I 'm going to be all right . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | got some , I got some people coming round tonight so I was gon na do it anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 21 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 22 | Tight-eyed against the light , I found some finger holds at the edge of reach and slid , sackless for the second time , onto the white slab . |
| 23 | On the other hand , I found some feminists justified this style as something that ‘ suits women better ’ or ‘ gets away from male ways of speaking ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 26 | ‘ I want some time to think about what you have told me . |
| 27 | I want some teabags get me some please . |
| 28 | I made a coconut cake but er er I put some coconut icing on it pink . |
| 29 | In Athens , where I was competing alongside Nigel Walker and Lesley-Ann Skeet , two of our best hurdlers , I noticed some spots appearing here and there on my body , but as they did n't bother me , I ignored them . |
| 30 | After a quick outline of what each type of program lets you do , I list some uses to whet your appetite . |