Example sentences of "he [vb past] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player . |
| 2 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 3 | And , when the light-valve was finally delivered in 1934 , he made some stereo variable-area optical soundtracks almost identical to those adopted by the film industry in the late 1970s . |
| 4 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 5 | He made some measure of pass at me . |
| 6 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 7 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 8 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 9 | He made some remark about being surprised to receive Blanche 's request so long after the murder and not being sure what she hoped to gain from viewing the tapes . |
| 10 | He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes . |
| 11 | One day he met some sea canoeists who had crossed Luce Bay . |
| 12 | If we must only think " if " he met some accident while trying to investigate something he did n't like on one of the ships , he will have died while doing what he felt to be his duty , " I said . |
| 13 | I did n't say anything , though the way he had said it made it clear he expected some comment . |
| 14 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 15 | He recommended some training for hotel staff to be a bit more professional in their attitude . |
| 16 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
| 17 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 18 | when he got some money |
| 19 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 20 | I was able to arrange that U Khin Zaw , working in the Burmese section of the BBC , should return to be in charge of broadcasting , and in the meantime to ensure that he got some experience of the drama , music and talks departments . |
| 21 | I always remember working on the , on the pub I , I , I did a lot of work on there for them and er he got some panelling |
| 22 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 23 | Though he got some support from Board members Hilary Wainwright and Vella Pillay of the Bank of China ( who changed his mind and agreed that Sutton had to go as soon as he saw Pilger 's pages ) , there was no real point . |
| 24 | He got some sort of report from intelligence sources in England that Steiner was killed at a place called Meltham House trying to get at Churchill . ’ |
| 25 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 26 | One reason for the length of the audience was , It think , that he found some comfort in being offered a number of more or less obvious platitudes , regarding the transitory nature of the present political muddle . |
| 27 | He drew some comfort from the expectation that revision would be necessary inside a year or two . |
| 28 | As Macmillan at the time was political adviser to General Alexander whose army occupied that area , many felt that he bore some responsibility . |
| 29 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 30 | It was in Burma that he caught some sort of fever and he never got over it ; he came home on leave and never went back . ’ |