Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 2 | A small Palestinian boy led me up some steps to the side of the building and the woman ushered me inside . |
| 3 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high . |
| 6 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 7 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 8 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 14 | He hefted the pistol towards the window , laid it on the sill , cocked it , put a percussion cap beneath the hammer , directed it at some sepoys trotting below , and pulled the trigger , confident that a sepoy would throw up his arms and sink to the ground . |
| 15 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 16 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 17 | Feeling himself very much at a crossroads , he delivered himself of some reflections on the modern times they were living through . |
| 18 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 19 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 20 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 21 | Chicago , Chicago — so good , they named it after some onions . |
| 22 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 23 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 24 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 25 | We indulged ourselves with some jars of Marmite and bitter marmalade ( which proved not to go well with rice ) and an emergency medicinal bottle of Grand Marnier . |
| 26 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 27 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Paul accompanied me at some services . |
| 29 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 30 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |