Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 2 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 3 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 4 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 5 | They showed me some of their stories , but there were hundreds that they kept secret . |
| 6 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 7 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 8 | and then she kept saying they owed her some money you know |
| 9 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 10 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 11 | So what have we got , have they sent me some new textbooks ? |
| 12 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 13 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 14 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 15 | They gave us some time back afterwards , because of the bairn having an operation . |
| 16 | They gave us some swords too ! |
| 17 | But what they wonder why they gave us some swords ! |
| 18 | Now they 're not doing so much that many thousands of pounds , that lot 'em took it some did n't . |