Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hey Jitters , you limey bastid , last Thursday I saw me some Argentinian fellers marching down Main Street with GenTech weapons . |
| 2 | I brought her some hot pie and ale . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I gave her some poached chicken breast at lunchtime and she even managed a couple of scones for tea . ’ |
| 4 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 5 | She eyeballed me some more , then finished her beer in one gulp . |
| 6 | It was a very acrimonious occasion and she called us some terrible names . |
| 7 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 8 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 9 | We got us some good huntin' here , sheriff . ’ |
| 10 | As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions . |
| 11 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 12 | So what have we got , have they sent me some new textbooks ? |
| 13 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 14 | He made us some fine sets of playing cards and a neat Monopoly board . |
| 15 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 16 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 17 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 18 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 19 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 20 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 21 | For one crazy , idiotic moment , Leith thought Naylor might have disposed of Sebastian 's deerstalker because it caused him some small degree of jealousy to see another man 's hat in her home . |
| 22 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 23 | He poured her some black coffee . |
| 24 | Sean admits it was a tough time and it taught her some hard lessons . |
| 25 | He refused to eat , the stupid man , and he sent me some angry letters . |
| 26 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 27 | Yes , mm , you re-potting it did it some good |
| 28 | He gave her some more champagne and she asked if he had children . |
| 29 | He gave me some good news . |
| 30 | A farmer friend of mine came to look the place over shortly after we bought it and he gave me some useful advice : that , whatever happened , we must enjoy doing the work . |