Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] some [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in case for some reason they 'll correlate , it does n't matter . |
| 2 | Just in case for some reason you want to call me … ’ |
| 3 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | A good suggestion might be , in the past this child has suffered a loss of some figure it was dependent on , and has compensated by becoming highly independent . |
| 6 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 7 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 8 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 9 | Later , your active reference to page 253 will be a review of some fact you need to know , and an improvement of memory . |
| 10 | In view of the increased prevalence of osteoporosis and high rates of bone loss in some patients we feel that all postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease should be considered for HRT , particularly in those with extensive disease of those requiring longterm corticosteroid treatment . |
| 11 | This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock . |
| 12 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 13 | ‘ Any questions you like provided that you know only your daughter can answer them ; the nickname of a childhood friend , for example , or the description of some pet she used to have , anything that she will know and her captors ca n't know . |
| 14 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 15 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 16 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 17 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 18 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 19 | And I know this presents the county council with some problems I do n't know currently what the the local authorities ' view on it is . |
| 20 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 21 | So if your resistance stays the same and we keep increasing the voltage at some stage you say ooh it feels tingly |
| 22 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 23 | If you have been away from nurse education for some time you will be very pleasantly surprised by the much more interactive and civilised approach to learning apparent in most schools and colleges of nursing . |
| 24 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 25 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 26 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 27 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 28 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 29 | Magee nodded and fumbled in his coat pocket for some matches he knew were there . |
| 30 | Notice they are not only given a reason for observing , which , of course , gives their spectator role a frame through which to watch , but there is also a hint of some responsibility they might have to carry — a necessary engagement is then ensured . |