Example sentences of "and [vb pp] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 2 | The vet arrived very quickly and prescribed some tablets . |
| 3 | The doctor suggested that she might avoid milk , cheese and butter for a while , to see if this had any effect , and prescribed some tablets to give her extra calcium . |
| 4 | Eventually Maxim 's improvised and placed some leeks , which had been used for consomme " , in front of the King . |
| 5 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 6 | I was received very cordially and given some names and phone numbers . |
| 7 | Leith asked , unable in her constant nagging worry about the mortgage to resist the hope that he might have referred to it , and given some indication of what he intended to do about repaying his half . |
| 8 | We were split into groups and given some clues . |
| 9 | Poor , pathetic old man , he thought , watching as his Uncle Walter picked up his pen again and consulted some notes , preparing to conclude his long chronicle of the family . |
| 10 | He looked at the books Willie had chosen and picked some others from the bookcase with animal pictures in them . |
| 11 | The other letters in the brief-case were a mixed bag and dated some time later . |
| 12 | Aware , as she most certainly was , that she could not be pleased to see him — grief , if past experience was anything to go by , they 'd no doubt be going for each other 's throats before the meal was half over — Leith returned to the kitchen and prepared some salad . |
| 13 | During a break while attending a board meeting , I have looked beyond the faces and the smoke , and seen some idea that has carried me far away for a few moments . |
| 14 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The people coming to the party were a bit daft and probably would have picked it up and done some damage with it . ’ |
| 16 | Although he had kept up his reading — particularly in Greek and French — and written some stories for the Speaker , he believed his intellect had been let sleep . |
| 17 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 18 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 19 | Like the wooden chancel rail on which countless hands awaiting the sacrament had laid a patina , and the memorial stones in the floor of the aisle worn smooth over the centuries , the very fabric of the building seemed to have distilled and preserved some essence of generations of worshippers . |
| 20 | I went in there and bought some chewing gum when I went down to see it |
| 21 | In CHILE — God challenged us in our commitment to him and called some people to work in specific countries in the future . |
| 22 | I du n no , I think she just , probably gone down and played some records or something . |
| 23 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 24 | Those who had moved from what they described as ‘ inland ’ had made and experienced some choice about the kind of life they cared to lead . |
| 25 | Miss Logan prepared the bedding and administered some opium ; the guide , after making gestures incomprehensible to her , vanished . |
| 26 | The reports have puzzled and confounded some experts . |
| 27 | Collimore he 's turned and found some room for himself . |
| 28 | Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it . |
| 29 | And if your son is n't settling down then we may need to have another look at him , and run some tests on him . |
| 30 | Somebody had been picnicking there do you see , in the warren and left some bottles there . |