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

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1 I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’
2 I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’
3 I tried to make some enquiries . ’
4 I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea …
5 I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another .
6 I wish I 'd bought some chips — I 'm still pretty hungry .
7 You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’
8 I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich .
9 If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face .
10 I decided to put some clothes back on and investigate . ’
11 They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights
12 So I started making some calls of my own .
13 I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies .
14 I meant to get some bits for us , I might have to go back
15 I offered to do some jobs until the others returned .
16 I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind .
17 On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich .
18 I managed to steal some clothes from a butcher fastened in the stocks .
19 John had been loading coals into a wagon on the instructions of another driver and then , to use his own words " I went to pick some chickens out of the breeze " and whilst doing so was attacked .
20 Anyway , all I can say is , I did make some notes somewhere , I think I put them in my pocket , or maybe ( silence ) .
21 I did see some tits in there , yeah .
22 I did get some interviews but I would be so paralysed I could n't do myself justice .
23 I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position !
24 And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ?
25 Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry .
26 In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds .
27 it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement
28 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
29 Surely I had got some things clearer since he died ?
30 I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole .
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