Example sentences of "some [noun sg] i [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was some research I was doing at Cambridge into the Black Death , ’ he said .
2 And at some point I was visited .
3 ‘ At some point I was torn between two or three different possibilities of how to go ahead ’ said Christina Gillespie , the secretary of the group , ‘ when I got a phone-call from the Salvation Army , saying that they were praying for me .
4 My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’
5 I well I 'm on about doing some stuff I am cos I ca n't get , ca n't find what I want , build my own yeah
6 Some day I 'm gon na set fire to the joint personal . ’
7 Some day I 'm going to have to meet my mother
8 It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured .
9 Bridget too had a similar experience : " The other girls had mixed feelings , some of them were happy for me but some thought I was a slag and a tart and that I did n't know who the father was , and they were bitchy towards me when they passed in the corridors . "
10 perhaps Hertfordshire County Council average they actually got some information I 'm sa , I 'm sorry to say Mr 's got no have to state the position so far , not officer .
11 For some reason I am panting , my heart is pounding , my fingers tingle , and my legs … my legs are like cool jelly …
12 So I was down there watching The Yardbirds and the English bands that were starting , and one time there was this band — for some reason I was there early and watching the sound check — with this blond guy who had very long blond hair , and knee-length sort of sued , fringed , Sherwood Forest , Robin Hood-looking boots , playing a bit of sax on stage .
13 I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room .
14 For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity .
15 " But for some reason I was not happy about it .
16 I know and for some reason I was incredibly pissed .
17 I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you .
18 Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it .
19 there is no better way , but er the problem with that is that , you know okay , you might get , you might get some peasants who say well we 're really grateful , we 'll go off and fight but some of them might just say no look , we 've got some land I 'm not gon na leave it ,
20 T to some extent I 'm sure that 's true .
21 For some time I was baffled by a sentence in his argument that the theoretical removal of the authority of the author by the critic , Stanley Fish , has no way of dealing with misprints : ‘ His book happens to be full of misprints .
22 For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help .
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