Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , communicating with Yeltsin behind Yazov 's back , he agreed to send some tanks to the White House . |
| 2 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 3 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 4 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 5 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 6 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 7 | He stopped to drink some coffee . |
| 8 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 9 | ‘ Not wanting to attract any more attention than necessary in an as yet unannounced vehicle , he accelerated to gain some distance . ’ |
| 10 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 11 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 12 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
| 13 | He determined to buy some toilet paper . |
| 14 | He began to execute some sample specimens of the poet 's handwriting . |
| 15 | He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go . |
| 16 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 17 | He needed to eat some food . |
| 18 | One evening , while they were dining out at a restaurant , he decided to buy some condoms from a machine . |
| 19 | so embedded now in English cricket folklore : the lost teeth at Taunton in '74 when Andy Roberts bounced him ( ‘ my first big break ’ ) , his dark months of Test captaincy , Headingley '81 , when he decided to have some fun and whacked 149 not out ( ‘ soon the depression lifted ’ ) , Hollywood ( ‘ nice little diversion ’ ) , the accusations of misbehaviour off the field ( ‘ ridiculous ’ , ‘ farcical ’ , ‘ part of the learning process ’ ) , thoughts on the World Cup ( ‘ Pakistan were lucky to get to the final ’ ) , the Somerset break-up . |
| 20 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 21 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 22 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 23 | I think he went to have some tea . ’ |
| 24 | He went to get some petrol cos we 'd run out . |
| 25 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 26 | He managed to convey some contempt for the TAS and its operations at the same time . |
| 27 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 28 | Several of the dormitories were flooded because of the water , including Endill 's , and he had to spend some nights sleeping in Mr Rumback 's room . |
| 29 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 30 | ’ He had to give some sort of explanation . |