Example sentences of "that he [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Burun had originated the plot , it was possible that he felt some responsibility towards Sidacai . |
| 2 | The pope himself was beginning to waver , and there are signs that he felt some embarrassment at abandoning the position of his predecessor and leaving Anselm isolated . |
| 3 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 4 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 5 | " Harry , see that he gets some heat on that shoulder right away . " |
| 6 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 7 | We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him . |
| 8 | I was able to arrange that U Khin Zaw , working in the Burmese section of the BBC , should return to be in charge of broadcasting , and in the meantime to ensure that he got some experience of the drama , music and talks departments . |
| 9 | Wires announcing that he had some leave would be sent to the delightful telegraphic address of B.P. which was ‘ Bonzo ’ . |
| 10 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 11 | Further research may demonstrate that he had some knowledge of science and of medicine . |
| 12 | Sandison suspected that he had some kind of private income but , judging by the state of his clothes , his means , from whatever source , were limited . |
| 13 | Peter wished that he had some kind of weapon . |
| 14 | ‘ He says that he had some grub here , around half-past four on Wednesday morning . |
| 15 | But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station . |
| 16 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 17 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 18 | She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much . |
| 19 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 20 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 21 | One reason for the length of the audience was , It think , that he found some comfort in being offered a number of more or less obvious platitudes , regarding the transitory nature of the present political muddle . |
| 22 | The events of the last part of his life remain obscure , but his will ( drawn up on 8 March 1482 , proved 1 April 1482 ) implies that he held some post at the court of Edward IV . |
| 23 | As Macmillan at the time was political adviser to General Alexander whose army occupied that area , many felt that he bore some responsibility . |
| 24 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 25 | ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country . |
| 26 | The sergeant nodded with approval , knowing that he needed some way to dissipate his nervous energy in the coming hours . |
| 27 | When Mr Stephens went out to buy more provisions for tea — though his excuse offered was that he needed some tobacco — John sat in chair on one side of the kitchen , Emily stood by the window on the other side , both on their best behaviour . |
| 28 | It was in Burma that he caught some sort of fever and he never got over it ; he came home on leave and never went back . ’ |
| 29 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 30 | Once it is assumed that the third party would be liable to the plaintiffs for damages of a particular kind , it must follow that he has some responsibility for those damages . |