Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 2 | Corbett noted she had lost some of her arrogance and was more watchful . |
| 3 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 4 | Each person was given a blanket , but no food ; I suspect the soldiers assumed we had brought some with us . |
| 5 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 6 | At a rural campaign stop in 1987 , she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers . |
| 7 | By the end of the year they reckoned they had released some 432 men , 180 wives , and 1,341 children . |
| 8 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 9 | Swindon Crown Court heard they 'd consumed some 17 pints of beer . |
| 10 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 11 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 12 | I thought you 'd got some on the weekend |
| 13 | and er I says well I thought you 'd got some . |
| 14 | I thought you did ask some , there were a lot of good overall questions to start with but I think they tailed away very quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you wanted to do some shopping , ’ Tony murmured . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 17 | He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble . |
| 18 | Someone handed him a can of beer and Rain knew he intended to stay some time . |
| 19 | I thought he had passed some inconsequential remark , but when the couple had walked on , Miss Senga informed me that the man had relayed a message from Master Patrick . |
| 20 | In a launderette , he realized he had left some clothes out of the load , so he opened the door to add them . |
| 21 | He said everyone had to have some relaxation . |
| 22 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 23 | Cindy , 26 , the wife of movie heart-throb Richard Gere , said she had seen some ‘ pretty sad ones ’ . |
| 24 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 25 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 26 | She wished she had worn some make-up , then chastised herself for such a feeble thought . |
| 27 | Richardson said they wanted to make some copies , and he and North and North 's aides copied the stack between them . |
| 28 | Oh he he he he he he he had he had kept some money backward you see . |
| 29 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 30 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |