Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 5 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 7 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 8 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 9 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 10 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 11 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 12 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 13 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 14 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 15 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 16 | Maria did n't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship . |
| 17 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 21 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 22 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 23 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 24 | He heard him speak some words , but he could n't make out what they were ; he then saw him bend and kiss her , not on the cheek but on the lips . |
| 25 | I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long . |
| 26 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 28 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 29 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 30 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |