Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] some [noun pl] " 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 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 5 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 6 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 9 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 10 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 14 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 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 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 18 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 19 | One of his specialities is a droning refrain , performed I think some years ago on one of those Saturday morning comedy-pop-and-hobbies programmes for children , in which a long-haired tennis-player with a head band gives out with his sporting autobiography . |
| 20 | Did you bring some waterproofs too ? |
| 21 | Did you want some eggs or not ? |
| 22 | When did you buy some jackets in France ? |
| 23 | Did you have some stories with this teddy ? |
| 24 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 25 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 26 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |