Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 2 | ‘ Last time I came , ’ David was saying , as they turned left at the end of the main road , ‘ I think I remember some larger houses along here . ’ |
| 3 | By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds . |
| 4 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 5 | But I took some better ones . |
| 6 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 7 | Right , well we 've recorded this for so long , can you use some bigger words now please ? |
| 8 | No , you 're not going to do any more , oh you ca n't do any more till you get some thicker board can you ? |
| 9 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 10 | If you prefer some lighter reading to re-awaken forgotten memories , Nigel Roebuck 's Inside Formula One is to be highly recommended . |
| 11 | Chairman I 'm sure that the Policy Committee will take note of er your erm remarks er and indeed will be pleased to see the satisfactory er , operation of the Highways Department er in the current year , erm , sometimes we get some better news than others and of course the , the fact that the interest rates have er fallen has considerably er , erm assisted the Highways Department as indeed have the er very competitive prices which have been received for er , er constructional works . |
| 12 | we 've some better news at last of Gloucester rugby … the cherry and whites won their first match of the season on saturday … they beat cardiff at Kingsholm 16-5 |
| 13 | See how you get on with the following questions : if you answer " yes ' to one or more , then we have some further work to do in this area ! |
| 14 | Now that the prior was assured of retaining his saint , together with all the lustre accruing to him as her discoverer and translator , he wanted everything tidied up and ended , and these troublesome visitors from Ramsey off his premises , before they contrived some further mischief . |
| 15 | It contained some taller buildings with shops on the ground floor . |
| 16 | Of course he acquired some better habits , such as that great liking for poetry and music . |
| 17 | It took some further persuasion to elicit exactly where he had spent the hours in Newcastle . |
| 18 | He wanted some greater degree of power for himself , always within a political reality where the malais ultimately called the shots . |
| 19 | However , since the notion of a continuum persists in the literature it warrants some further discussion . |
| 20 | He volunteered some further information . |
| 21 | This dry pattern will continue into tomorrow but the cloud I 've told you about in Scotland will wander down towards us bringing some thicker cloud for a while . |