Example sentences of "he [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | I always remember working on the , on the pub I , I , I did a lot of work on there for them and er he got some panelling |
| 33 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
| 34 | Though he got some support from Board members Hilary Wainwright and Vella Pillay of the Bank of China ( who changed his mind and agreed that Sutton had to go as soon as he saw Pilger 's pages ) , there was no real point . |
| 35 | She followed him to the door ; he got some tools out of the shed and squatted down to unscrew the number plates from his old Renault . |
| 36 | Naturally , he told his friends and this other man went along too and he got some pills . |
| 37 | And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories . |
| 38 | He got some sort of report from intelligence sources in England that Steiner was killed at a place called Meltham House trying to get at Churchill . ’ |
| 39 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 40 | The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva . |
| 41 | But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney . |
| 42 | Despite the nagging of common sense , Mungo knew he would never be satisfied until he found some answers . |
| 43 | Edward had come to realise that he found some bodies more appealing than others , and that the contemplation of them aroused feelings that had nothing to do with artistic appreciation . |
| 44 | He found some mispricings in excess of transactions costs . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | He cracked some eggs into a saucepan , adding milk and butter . |
| 47 | Instead he demonstrated some gadgets — grandma 's tilting teapot , self-adjusting spanner , mini radio transmitter to summon help via telephone and data bank — and indicated a wealth of similar innovation . |
| 48 | He drew some comfort from the expectation that revision would be necessary inside a year or two . |
| 49 | As Macmillan at the time was political adviser to General Alexander whose army occupied that area , many felt that he bore some responsibility . |
| 50 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |
| 51 | 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 . ’ |
| 52 | He gleaned some satisfaction from that future prospect . |
| 53 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
| 54 | He mentioned some plan they had of buying old houses and converting them into flats for sale . |
| 55 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 56 | When , during the second cod war , the angry Icelanders demonstrated outside the British Embassy , he played some pipe music on his gramophone , very loudly and with open windows . |
| 57 | Atherton went in the eighth , lbw to one which Waqar whipped back at him as he played some way forward . |
| 58 | He wished the Colonel would go away , but he knew Ford would keep pestering until he received some reassurance . |
| 59 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 60 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |