Example sentences of "he [verb] some [noun] " 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 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 7 | he made some changes in his cabinet to assure a favourable vote , and he talked to the Shah . |
| 8 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 9 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He made some calculations on a scrap of parchment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Does he want some baby food ? |
| 15 | He registered some aspects of it — for instance the separate arrangements for the allied units in the Roman army ( 6.21.4 ) . |
| 16 | When the Berlin Philharmonic visited New York in 1982 , he registered some doubts about aspects of the music-making , about an absence of cut and thrust in the articulation of some of Brahms 's cross-rhythms , but went on : |
| 17 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 18 | He sold some Jamaicans a bag of fake cannabis . |
| 19 | He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ . |
| 20 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 21 | One day he met some sea canoeists who had crossed Luce Bay . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 24 | I did n't say anything , though the way he had said it made it clear he expected some comment . |
| 25 | Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it . |
| 26 | He recommended some training for hotel staff to be a bit more professional in their attitude . |
| 27 | ‘ He asked some girls to go up on stage and give him a kiss , and just for a joke I did . |
| 28 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 29 | But then , he got some A levels and he 's finally got an Open University degree , good luck to him . |
| 30 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |