Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 2 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 3 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 4 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 5 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 6 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 7 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 8 | Putting her mug down , she rubbed her fingers along her arm and tried to chafe some heat into her cool flesh . |
| 9 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 10 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 11 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 12 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 13 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 14 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 15 | Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily . |
| 16 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 17 | Averting her head , she bent down quickly and finished stuffing some sheets of paper and pencils into a plastic bag . |
| 18 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |
| 19 | I 'm not a writer but I have done some singing , and so we met up and decided to do some songs , with a conscious effort to keep it basic-sounding , and showcase Lola 's voice . |
| 20 | The London-based committee was in contact with ministers , tried hard to persuade the island legislatures to initiate measures of amelioration to make the West Indian position more tenable in British eyes and managed to raise some petitions on slavery 's behalf , though few compared with the abolitionist flood . |
| 21 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 22 | The first time Jane saw him , he got out and proceeded to release some pigeons from a basket . |
| 23 | She felt tears sting at her eyes , and struggled to retain some self-control . |
| 24 | Harry took a deep breath and struggled to shape some propositions that would not offend the doctor 's code of ethics . |
| 25 | I just ran out of the room and went to pack some clothes . |
| 26 | I kept out of his way while he fussed about with the old banger and went to get some petrol . |
| 27 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 28 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 29 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 30 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |