Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] some " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground .
2 You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you .
3 The final withdrawal without major disaster enabled them to preserve some profit .
4 The customer has specifically asked me to provide some additional data for our next meeting .
5 They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others .
6 He says he wants me to meet some of his friends .
7 Can you please help me to find some waterproof seat covers .
8 Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went .
9 My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room .
10 ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work .
11 ‘ We need someone to do some — ’ he flapped his hand inarticulately ‘ — translating , or whatever you call it . ’
12 Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him .
13 yeah get em get em to do some sort of training
14 I ask them to visit some of the communities that I represent , from which industry has disappeared and in which it is not only the person approaching pensionable age who is unemployed and in receipt of social security benefit , but the caring young people in the family who want to do the best for their relatives .
15 When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly .
16 This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects .
17 The news that some 1500 pints of bitter were going to waste soon brought a crowd of every kind and sort with every kind and sort of receptacle in which to catch some of the precious liquid .
18 In Committee , it emerged that the Scottish Development Agency has been investing public money in the private operator Stagecoach to enable it to put together 15 million with which to buy some of the public assets involved in this privatisation The Minister said that the money that the Scottish Development Agency invested in Stagecoach was more than f65,000 , but less than £l million .
19 Q Please could you give me some information on Red Shiners , as I would like to set up a coldwater tank in which to keep some .
20 ‘ I need somebody to get some information for me .
21 Perhaps he even considered himself to have some kind of claim to the place ?
22 On 15 December , Fhimah made a note in his diary , reminding himself to take some Air Malta luggage tags from the airport .
23 Though both are still being briefed , there are indications that they would like to use the shock of the Tiananmen massacre as a negotiating tool with which to recover some of the concessions made by their predecessors in respect of Hong Kong .
24 They will make a base for me to pen some more articles for the Journal .
25 Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question .
26 The other week she tried to get me to buy some different plants , but I did n't do it .
27 Do we need , me to buy some more ?
28 Matt Mantelow has also asked me to list some of the more common logic gates according to their function .
29 It saddens me to hear some people in Britain speak as if there were some way of keeping Germany divided whether or not this is what the Germans want .
30 Do you want me to play some games or something ?
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