Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 2 | Maria did n't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 7 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 8 | I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 15 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you wanted some air , sweetheart , that 's all … ’ |
| 18 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 19 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 22 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 23 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 24 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 25 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 26 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 27 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
| 28 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |
| 29 | I said I needed some air , but if I do n't go back soon … |
| 30 | I thought you said you wanted some ice-cream ? |