Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did dream about some kittens the other night , there was |
| 2 | He wanted to see Mr Remington-Hart about some patient and to spend next Sunday catching up on ‘ cold ’ cases . |
| 3 | Barbara finds the carcass of a huge snake , Susan and Ian stumble across a mound of eggs guarded by a giant ant ( fortunately also dead ) , while the Doctor mutters darkly about some intelligence having carved these channels in the rocks , but for what purpose ? |
| 4 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 5 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 6 | Er I 'm gon na have an interview with a guy next week about some stuff , so I should find out , I have had three replies from the fifteen I 've sent out , I sent out another five last night this is |
| 7 | saying she 's spoke to you about some development plan or something I she said shall I bring it round to you , I said no I 'll ask . |
| 8 | Something about some development plan , then she says , ah , she did n't like how the houses were laid out because one was behind the other , but I saw the plan last time and , and , and it did n't look quite bad . |
| 9 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 10 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 11 | The major audit firms have also expressed serious reservations about some elements in the APB 's package that appeared in exposure drafts last May on going concern and an extended audit report . |
| 12 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 13 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 14 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |
| 15 | Does he share my concern about some prisoners being put in prisons that are so far away from their families that it is a difficult and expensive business for the wives and chilldren — especially if there are young children — to travel half way round the country to see their fathers or relatives ? |
| 16 | ‘ Had to see Elmore there about some instruments . |
| 17 | It 's about some kind of database structure thing . |
| 18 | I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year . |
| 19 | How about some socks ? ’ |
| 20 | What about some grapefruit ? |
| 21 | In his later years there was a tendency to treat Wordsworth as a venerable sage : there is too much sentimental piety about some descriptions , while others give the impression of a strange , and slightly dotty , old man of the mountains . |
| 22 | Erm and you were saying earlier Mike , that this in effect is an , an internal contract and you have a nice little story about some initials behind someone 's desk , which you 'd |
| 23 | How about some fizz ? ’ |
| 24 | Stories about some kinship between Romans and Greeks gained credit because Demetrius Poliorcetes referred to the " kinship between Romans and Greeks " when he protested at Rome against the pirates of Antium — probably after 295 B.C. ( Strabo 5.3.5 , p. 232 ) . |
| 25 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 26 | He thought about some work and also about the world , as he had not since he was in India . |
| 27 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 28 | Then how about some lunch ? |
| 29 | ‘ Since you 're awake now , ’ he said , adding another minus to his score , ‘ how about some lunch ? ’ |
| 30 | ’ ‘ ow about some lunch , luv ? |