Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [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 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 14 | ‘ As a young child I pinched some prunings from my dad 's forsythia and planted them , ’ explains Ric of his beginnings . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 17 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 20 | The , my eye I got some drops from the chemist cos my eye was bad . |
| 21 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 22 | A Wave washed ashore and within its rushing sound I heard some hope from periodical land — that most finicky home to all media junkies everywhere.Rather than offer up another fascinating glimpse of some consumable , this Wave challenged me to look into myself and wonder whether organic intelligence is what we should be seeking.This story , Inner Space Outer Space has all the trappings of a mystery thriller , except the mystery is ancient and it is us . |
| 23 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 24 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 25 | After a moment he dropped some coins from his pocket into the hat and stepped back . |
| 26 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 27 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw some wirelesses in a shop window . |
| 28 | In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy , and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government . |
| 29 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 30 | Then one night I got some concrete , mixed it and filled every hole in the rock I thought the worm could escape through . |