Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 2 | As I put some oranges through the juicer , her image , bright and laughing , was in my mind . |
| 3 | They are not , as I had some apprehension , gold striped , or jewelled , ( the pipes , I mean ) . |
| 4 | As I said some moments ago , we have strengthened the law requiring trustees to disclose key information to members , to pensioners and to trade unions . |
| 5 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 6 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 7 | ‘ As long as I drink some Lucozade straight away , then I 'm OK . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , you may not recognise me , as I appear some decades younger than you . |
| 9 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 10 | However , as you have some discretion in these matters , Mr. Speaker , and while we wait for the Scottish electorate to remove the remainder of the Scottish Conservative party from this House , would it not be appropriate for you to give priority to Scottish Members at Scottish Question Time ? |
| 11 | as you wanted some planning Glynis I have n't got any official plan |
| 12 | Use this knowledge of God 's care as you spend some moments praying through the issues you have isolated in the points above . |
| 13 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 14 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 15 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 16 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 17 | Hers was not a demanding character , and so long as she felt some evidence of a man 's care ( which living in Charles ' room would give her ) she would not need more . |
| 18 | She urged an inquiry , but as she explained some months later , ‘ This was brusquely and rudely refused by Mr. Merlyn Rees , the then Secretary of State , on the grounds that my allegations were untrue . ’ |
| 19 | Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition . |
| 20 | ‘ Various Arias are my ‘ second string ’ choice , and then there are always situations where a P-bass sound is perfect , particularly with Brian , as we do some Queen songs and that 's their bass sound . |
| 21 | As long as they get some exposure to written language , most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy . |
| 22 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 23 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 24 | A large number of boys , particularly at the foreclosure stage , are initially attracted to science but there is a drift away throughout later adolescence as they undergo some crisis . |
| 25 | The pupils were then given the opportunity to create and experiment with her voice synthesiser as they performed some group poems of their own . |
| 26 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 27 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 28 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 29 | The plane had started to shudder as it entered some turbulence , and Myeloski was startled by it . |
| 30 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |