Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 4 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 5 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 6 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 7 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 8 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 9 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 10 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 11 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 12 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 14 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 15 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 16 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
| 17 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 18 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 19 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 20 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , he sees me , ’ Belinda told her with some spirit . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't remember what I actually said , but obviously Mandy misinterpreted it in some way . |
| 23 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 25 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 26 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 27 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 28 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 30 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |