Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 2 | He sits on some plastic institutional sofa . |
| 3 | One was his simplicity — which he shared in some measure with Joffre . |
| 4 | Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne . |
| 5 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 6 | He got into some trouble down in Jumby Village . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Which is perhaps why you can come to Czechoslovakia for a holiday alone , a working holiday , ’ he qualified with some charm . |
| 8 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 9 | Pat 's all right , look at him , he looks like some sort of Irish hero , and he 's writing yards of poetry . ’ |
| 10 | For the first time , too , he writes with some bitterness about the customs of William I and Lanfranc which he had hitherto accepted without demur : |
| 11 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 12 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 13 | Looking back , he says with some amusement , his creations were impressively avant-garde . |
| 14 | I did n't much like them , but I realized he played with some mastery . |
| 15 | Dubois does not have the most winning of voices — there 's a suggestion of a whining edge which becomes apparent at times of stress — but he sings with some intelligence and sensitivity to the words and music . |
| 16 | ‘ It would n't mean very much to me either , ’ he replied with some charm , and , while Fabia 's heart gave a most unexpected flutter , he promptly took charge of her problem and , pointing to a patch of ground a little way over to the right , instructed , ‘ Steer your car over there . |
| 17 | He 's not truly backward , but he suffers from some kind of learning dysfunctionalism . ’ |
| 18 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 19 | Ian Ridley finds England 's Player of the Year straining at the leash as he gets in some practice against Sussex |
| 20 | Doncaster 's RL team , he observed for some reason , was even worse than its footballers . |
| 21 | He finished in some style , picking up birdies at the last four holes . |
| 22 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 23 | He thought about some work and also about the world , as he had not since he was in India . |
| 24 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 25 | Miller had also known this to flower at Hampton Court , although more than once he speaks with some disparagement of inefficient gardeners at this Palace . |
| 26 | He went into some comedy patter , bouncing lines off Thelma . |
| 27 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 28 | For the whole of his life my father was preoccupied by the duty he felt in some way to bear witness to his friend and his works . |
| 29 | He looked like some kind of rare orchid , dressed in a Crocodile Dundee hat of soft green suede and miniature matching trousers under a jerkin of pink washed silk lined with purple . |
| 30 | She was so small , and Luke so long in the leg , he looked like some father riding a seaside donkey to amuse his children . |