Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 3 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 4 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 5 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 6 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 7 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 8 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 9 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 10 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 14 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 15 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 16 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 17 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 18 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 19 | He stopped to drink some coffee . |
| 20 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 21 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 22 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 23 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 24 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 25 | ‘ I daresay her aunt and uncle would let you have it , ’ said Melissa , aware that this might be unlikely but feeling impelled to give some comfort to a fellow human being in so much distress . |
| 26 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 27 | On Wednesday came the masterstroke of entertainment , a party reported to cost some $12,000 which revealed definitively that the people of Fort Worth have a sense of humour about themselves . |
| 28 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 29 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 30 | She bent to knock some snow from her bindings . |