Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
| 2 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 3 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 4 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 5 | I smelled some recurrence of the tension between him and Laura and looked for a way to open the subject . |
| 6 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 7 | ‘ I got some pictures of them at home . |
| 8 | Forty years later , I found some areas of the real island of Bali overrun with drunken Australian footballers carrying on the GI tradition on their end-of-season trips . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you serving me food , or am I interrupting some kind of talent contest ? ’ |
| 10 | I want some sort of phraseology that as the nights get lighter the mornings get dark |
| 11 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 12 | I have had the advantage of reading in draft the reasons for judgment given by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. I agree with those reasons in their entirety but , because of the fundamental importance of the issues raised and because we are differing from the judgment of a very experienced judge , I add some words of my own . |
| 13 | I enjoyed some parts of it . |
| 14 | yeah get em get em to do some sort of training |
| 15 | ( I discuss some consequences of that fact in Chapter 11 . ) |
| 16 | I just said oh can I have some reports of all the students ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , ’ he spelled out for her , ‘ I wo n't force your engagement to my brother to an end if I feel some aspects of it are going to be — how shall we say ? — under my control . ’ |
| 19 | Then I saw some pictures of these Zamaitis guitars and thought they were such beautiful instruments that I 'd want to try to get one . |
| 20 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 21 | Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat . |
| 22 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 23 | In the humanities and social ‘ sciences ’ I think some measure of broadening is desirable though it is important that the students are confronted with a discipline in some depth . |
| 24 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 25 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 26 | ‘ I only wish I had some anecdotes of my own to compete with yours . ’ |
| 27 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 28 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 29 | I had some function of T and I finished up with T what did I start with ? |
| 30 | erm which quite simply I had some money of my own and I was n't that hungry er to jump in to any job at all . |