Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I made you some notes , as well . ’
2 I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that
3 I brought you some flowers , but the warden took them away , ’ I said .
4 I saved him some chips . ’
5 I bought us some brackets .
6 Oh yes I bought you some beads in .
7 You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’
8 Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’
9 She brought me some oranges from my orchard but I could n't eat them .
10 She sent us some notices of her recitals … ’
11 We got erm , got erm she bought me some Maltesers and she bought me a chocolate orange as well .
12 I seem to vaguely remember you gave me some directions last time .
13 You gave us , you gave us some dates on page three , item one hundred and twenty , thirteenth and fourteenth of December .
14 When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly .
15 And er well she gave us some towels .
16 But before you left her , you wrote her some letters perhaps .
17 We took her some flowers and erm I eucalyptus leaves and she thought they were lovely .
18 We left them some cigarettes and they sent us on our way .
19 There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma .
20 They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation .
21 They gave us some swords too !
22 But what they wonder why they gave us some swords !
23 Yeah , he got me some springs
24 I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible :
25 He handed me some leaflets and magazines about the French Army , one of which was Képi Blanc , the monthly journal of the Foreign Legion .
26 I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration .
27 It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution .
28 But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin .
29 Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects .
30 He gave me some answers to give you about your questions yesterday evening . ’
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