Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 2 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 3 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 4 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 5 | I refer my honourable friends to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 6 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 7 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 8 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 9 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 10 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 11 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 12 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 13 | However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented . |
| 14 | ( The Love Feast was an early Methodist institution which had some elements in common with the Communion service but did not set to duplicate it and was certainly not an attempt to replace it . |
| 15 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 16 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 17 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 18 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 19 | One case which attracted some attention was that of the Eton Fish and Chip Restaurant . |
| 20 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 21 | ‘ As a young child I pinched some prunings from my dad 's forsythia and planted them , ’ explains Ric of his beginnings . |
| 22 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 23 | He was also on many council committees , and chaired the committee which excluded some members of the first Protectorate Parliament . |
| 24 | As one of the team writing of the new catechism , Bishop David was in great demand to comment on the work which began some years ago . |
| 25 | I also wanted to get a rhythm through the work which portrayed some kind of dance . |
| 26 | Briefly , William Dement 's early experimental work which provided some support for this idea was subsequently found , both by himself and others , to be unrepeatable . |
| 27 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 28 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 29 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 30 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |