Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 2 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 3 | One was his simplicity — which he shared in some measure with Joffre . |
| 4 | Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne . |
| 5 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 6 | He got into some trouble down in Jumby Village . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Which is perhaps why you can come to Czechoslovakia for a holiday alone , a working holiday , ’ he qualified with some charm . |
| 8 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 9 | He bumped into some people waiting to join the queue for the seats in the reception area ( ha ; he 'd got in just before the rush ! ) , and went out through the doors back to the street and the bright sunlight . |
| 10 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 11 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 12 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 13 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 14 | I did n't much like them , but I realized he played with some mastery . |
| 15 | He dug amongst some papers in the corner and tossed us a canvas bag tied at the top . |
| 16 | ’ He paid for some years and then ceased payment . |
| 17 | ‘ It would n't mean very much to me either , ’ he replied with some charm , and , while Fabia 's heart gave a most unexpected flutter , he promptly took charge of her problem and , pointing to a patch of ground a little way over to the right , instructed , ‘ Steer your car over there . |
| 18 | He fiddled with some notes . |
| 19 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 20 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 21 | Doncaster 's RL team , he observed for some reason , was even worse than its footballers . |
| 22 | She was still standing there now , waiting impatiently , as he glanced through some papers , scribbling notes here and there . |
| 23 | He finished in some style , picking up birdies at the last four holes . |
| 24 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 25 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 26 | He sifted through some notes . |
| 27 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 28 | He thought about some work and also about the world , as he had not since he was in India . |
| 29 | Good piece of work , Joe , he thought with some satisfaction , as she turned slowly on the wire . |
| 30 | Charles Lambe claimed that he knew of some Dissenters who " will not touch either Food or Raiment , that was not bought in the Shop of a Fanatick . |