Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 2 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 3 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 4 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 5 | Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’ |
| 6 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 7 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 8 | So they had managed some sort of breakfast , and without waking me . |
| 9 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 10 | So he said get some money up together mum . |
| 11 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 12 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 13 | By now they had walked some distance along the Haymarket , and were on the edge of Piccadilly Circus where Dr Neil was relieved to see that Stair 's party had disappeared and the crowds there had grown less . |
| 14 | Surely I had got some things clearer since he died ? |
| 15 | Well we did have some rain but |
| 16 | The man had n't grouted the tiles in properly he 'd used some sort of rough old cement and the water was just going through and staying there ! |
| 17 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 18 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 19 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 20 | When we went to er Zoe 's place there they 'd got some tins , that Megazone tin what I 've got |
| 21 | Earlier he had mentioned some model heads of state for consideration : François Mitterrand , Vincent Auriol ( one of Mr Mitterrand 's predecessors ) and Fidel Castro . |
| 22 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 23 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 24 | But then he said seen some people |
| 25 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 26 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 27 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 28 | Vitor might not have been aware that she occupied the house , yet he had amassed some items of information about her . |
| 29 | Later the same morning Aitken went to Yorkshire Television 's headquarters in Leeds , where for the two years previously he had had some contacts and where the company was planning a documentary film on Biafra . |
| 30 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |