Example sentences of "and he [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intercedes on behalf of the people , and he wins some pardon from God . |
| 2 | He would like to see , for example , more acknowledgement that hospitals themselves have a strong impact on people , and he thinks some study should be devoted to this . |
| 3 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 4 | Found a tune , he took up his pen and he wrote some words , and according to the story , according to the legend , the next day at day-break , he rushed off to the Mayor Dietrich , and was able to say , I have done it . |
| 5 | Carter 's intentions were , in many ways , laudable and he had some successes , notably in bringing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1978 . |
| 6 | As head of an academic department ( Economics ) at McGill University , he had interested himself in student publications in the various universities across Canada , and he had some kind things to say about my attempts at humorous prose in the weekly ‘ Adventures of Dizzy Dick ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh you be quiet , ’ Sarah slapped him on the arm and he spilled some ice-cream on the table . |
| 8 | Naturally , he told his friends and this other man went along too and he got some pills . |
| 9 | And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories . |
| 10 | ‘ One of our researchers is American and he brought some over and it 's simply fantastic , ’ says Party worker John Reece . |
| 11 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 12 | And he said some things like ‘ And I tried so damn hard . ’ |
| 13 | and he said some time ago , he rung up one afternoon |
| 14 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 15 | The console lit up , and he flicked some buttons . |
| 16 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 17 | and he wants some long-line , well I did have some , but I do n't know if I 've still got them |
| 18 | A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics . |
| 19 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 20 | He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal . |