Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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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 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
3 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
4 | A small Palestinian boy led me up some steps to the side of the building and the woman ushered me inside . |
5 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
6 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
7 | 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 ’ . |
8 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
11 | Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
19 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
20 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
23 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
24 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
25 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
26 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
27 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
28 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |