Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 2 | I intend to play some waltzes and you shall all dance . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 5 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 6 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 7 | In this chapter , I want to examine some sites which hold a particular attraction for me and , remembering Allen Watkins ' account of how his father had classified sites according to the four elements , I have chosen representatives of three of these — earth , water and air . |
| 8 | She went in , and , though he was not thinking of Ireland , said , " I want to ask some questions . |
| 9 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 10 | Region I want to make some comments about the UNISON er section of the report , because er I think it 's concerning me that er we 're basically not getting our act together . |
| 11 | Zapp is impatient of other academics with tentative minds , who begin articles , ‘ I want to raise some questions about soand-so . ’ |
| 12 | By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity . |
| 13 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 14 | I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another . |
| 15 | I wish I 'd bought some chips — I 'm still pretty hungry . |
| 16 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 18 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 19 | Now , I 'm no ‘ Greenie ’ but Recycling is something I feel quite strongly about , and here I hope to give some pros and cons about Recycling , and also give some information about the actual processes . |
| 20 | I hope to add some details later . |
| 21 | Oh hang on I 'm leaving at ten cos I want to be there a little early and start them but I hope to get some perks . |
| 22 | See I have got some things for christmas . |
| 23 | I decided to put some clothes back on and investigate . ’ |
| 24 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 25 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 26 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 27 | I meant to get some bits for us , I might have to go back |
| 28 | I offered to do some jobs until the others returned . |
| 29 | I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind . |
| 30 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |