Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mixed I had some Malibu . |
| 9 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 10 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 11 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |
| 12 | I said I needed some air , but if I do n't go back soon … |
| 13 | Had I left some clue behind , a stray sock not his , an unfamiliar scent on the pillow ? |