Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to see Mr Remington-Hart about some patient and to spend next Sunday catching up on ‘ cold ’ cases . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 " . |
| 8 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's about some kind of database structure thing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | How about some fizz ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 15 | He thought about some work and also about the world , as he had not since he was in India . |
| 16 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 17 | Then how about some lunch ? |
| 18 | ‘ Since you 're awake now , ’ he said , adding another minus to his score , ‘ how about some lunch ? ’ |
| 19 | ’ ‘ ow about some lunch , luv ? |
| 20 | As far as I know , the boffin in control has had second thoughts about some calculation . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , what about some money , then ? |
| 22 | I 've done enough work for you recently — what about some money ? ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , mate , I 've just got in myself change stations but er Richard 's just talking about some kid who died from meningitis but it does n't mean a lot these days does it ? |
| 24 | He kept babbling then about some fiend that had taken possession of him . |
| 25 | The outrageous fine of £5,000 plus £1,000 costs imposed on England batsman Allan Lamb will act as the ultimate deterrent to every English professional cricketer who may want to speak out about some scandal , corruption or evil practice in their sport . |
| 26 | Oh she said a few days ago about some bungalow or something he 's he 's helping to build . |
| 27 | ‘ A quarrel about some girl , I think . |
| 28 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 29 | I 've got some bollocks on it about some girl in my class called Karen wanking or something and all sorts of other shit and like |
| 30 | Er , Ian , Ian made the point about some inconsistency and there is some inconsistency between the section conferences . |