Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 2 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 3 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 4 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 5 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 6 | At the teacher 's suggestion I then found myself colouring some swing tickets at happened to be in my knitting bag and attaching these to a very poor piece of knitting . |
| 7 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 8 | Maria did n't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship . |
| 9 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 10 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 11 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 12 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 13 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 14 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 15 | I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long . |
| 16 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ . |
| 18 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 19 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 20 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 21 | The final withdrawal without major disaster enabled them to preserve some profit . |
| 22 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 23 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 24 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you wanted some air , sweetheart , that 's all … ’ |
| 27 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 28 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 29 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 30 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |