Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment . |
| 2 | He would have them sell some peculiar stock , saying : " They 've given us this to get rid of , as we 're the top team . |
| 3 | The customer has specifically asked me to provide some additional data for our next meeting . |
| 4 | The linguistic and other significatory structures of psychological discourse are rare objects of psychological investigation , so simply focusing on them has some critical impact . |
| 5 | Can you please help me to find some waterproof seat covers . |
| 6 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 7 | Can I make some general comments on the three scenarios that you that you put to us . |
| 8 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 9 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 10 | By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up . |
| 11 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 12 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 13 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 14 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 15 | I made some Tommy-sized bets and ate very well in the ( literally ) below-stairs bar , and in general walked around , race-card in hand , binoculars around neck , exactly as usual . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's time I made some formal introductions , ’ he said . |
| 17 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 18 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 19 | But as it grows it will look deep into its hardback licences , and I fear some ugly clawback scenes arising as they did with Mandarin . |
| 20 | ’ I met some great gals out in Long Island , ’ says Michelle , slipping into suburban Angela drawl . |
| 21 | I met some wonderful people in that place . |
| 22 | Our view of the value of very further provides a good explanation for its otherwise puzzling absence following indefinite articles : ( 26 ) this is a very oak in which King Charles hid after the battle ( 27 ) walking into the bakery , I met some very men If very did indeed qualify some aspect of the following noun ( sense or referent ) , the contrast of grammatical status between ( 27 ) and ( 19 ) would be quite puzzling . |
| 23 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 24 | I was even more frightened the next morning , when I passed some large blood clots instead of urine , I became very agitated because I thought I must be dying ’ . |
| 25 | So I make some fresh coffee . |
| 26 | I got some vague sort of signal from the gentleman with the artillery piece which he put away in his bomber jacket again , and they turned round and took off — this time into wind — and sped towards Alconbury . |
| 27 | B. I got some great photos . |
| 28 | It 's just a bad case of de ja vu , de ja vu , de ja vu , yeah and I got some rough comics you know . |
| 29 | Oh I tell you what , I got some nice scrumpy at that bloody eh , what 's it , last weekend , the South of England Show . |
| 30 | I got some nice towels from erm Auntie Alice 's catalogue . |