Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 32 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 33 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |
| 34 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 37 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 38 | Hit me with some conversation . |
| 39 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 42 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 43 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 44 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 45 | Chicago , Chicago — so good , they named it after some onions . |
| 46 | He was born around the Darlington area and I heard that his family once had money , but lost it in some way . |
| 47 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 48 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 49 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 53 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 54 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 55 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 56 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 57 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 58 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 59 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 60 | The Treasury , as I say , undermined it to some extent , but all the time there was duplication going on . |