Example sentences of "he [verb] [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 has to bear some responsibility for what happened . ’ |
| 8 | He stopped to drink some coffee . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Asked why he had changed tack in his purchasing , Mr Mason , his dealer , said : ‘ Mr Lloyd Webber has made his money in Britain in the last decade , and he wants to put some back to save the finest of Canaletto 's London views . ’ |
| 11 | He wants to put some pennies in a machine and he has n't got any . |
| 12 | I imagine he wants to put some pressure on you . |
| 13 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 14 | The worker , we concluded , is caught in that he wants to make some investment in work , even though the ends sought may be quite diverse by different workers , and , at the same time , is always caught in a situation where he has to experience feelings of resentment . |
| 15 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 16 | ‘ Not wanting to attract any more attention than necessary in an as yet unannounced vehicle , he accelerated to gain some distance . ’ |
| 17 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
| 20 | Therefore , at the end of " Matters arising " a brief announcement by a member that he intends to raise some item — no discussion allowed at that stage — helps everyone when A.O.B. is reached . |
| 21 | He determined to buy some toilet paper . |
| 22 | He began to execute some sample specimens of the poet 's handwriting . |
| 23 | He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go . |
| 24 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 25 | He needed to eat some food . |
| 26 | One evening , while they were dining out at a restaurant , he decided to buy some condoms from a machine . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He thought to make some tea . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |