Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a number of technicians in the environmental health department who do some sterling work , and I know that no one here would want you to suppose that they are a kind of second-string person . |
| 2 | What we will end up with , no matter who wins , is a Minister for Sport who sits some distance from the corridors of power , who will likely be attached to some other ministry like Agriculture and Fisheries ( file ‘ Sport ’ under ‘ Codswallop ’ ) and who will spend a parliamentary career powerless , penniless and potless . |
| 3 | A French lady in an adjoining room who understood some English had become greatly alarmed and taken it upon herself to summon the police . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose they are nice , ’ Laura commented to a friend who saw some prototype suitcases lying about the château one day , ‘ but they are not my idea ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away . |
| 6 | The priest was offering his fingers to the policeman who poured some water over them . |
| 7 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 8 | ‘ When buying a puppy , try and ensure it is well-bred and reared by a breeder who has some aim to produce well-tempered stock . ’ |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said : ‘ A woman who did some shopping for the couple dropped the items off at the house . |
| 10 | Everywhere you went , you 'd meet a mate who had some gear . |
| 11 | They were in the custody of the court beadle who lived some distance away . |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 13 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 14 | Both his Chancellors — the two most important figures in the Conservative Party — thought of him , not as a man of promise , but as a man who deserved some reward by virtue of his service . |
| 15 | There was er the who was called after a Frenchman who invented some type of lenses and er the MacKenzie who was one of the engineers did the building of Skerrymor one of the surveyors or something . |
| 16 | It was years later that my cousin who dies some years ago , he was ninety two . |
| 17 | Matilda said , ‘ There 's a boy down the road who got some Superglue on his finger without knowing it and then he put his finger to his nose . ’ |
| 18 | I went to the doctor who did some tests which showed I had diabetes . |
| 19 | Another TV graduate was Ken Loach , whose UA-financed Kes ( 1969 ) , about a deprived schoolboy who finds some meaning to his life by befriending a kestrel , is a remarkable indicator of how far a Hollywood studio could be persuaded to go in looking for sellable films after the pop bubble had collapsed . |
| 20 | Many governing bodies appear to have at least one member who has some skill in financial planning and most governors are prepared to be sympathetic towards financial proposals from heads who show that they are competent . |
| 21 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 22 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |