I think I understand your question. In the cases you list, you can't remove the "some" and still have those phrases be correct. I'll give you an example:
A) I did some shopping today!
B) I did shopping today!
In that case, A is correct, and B is not. You would have to rephrase B, and say something like "I went shopping today!".
However, with a few verbs, you could take out the "some." There are not many cases when you could. Another example:
A) I did some laundry today.
B) I did laundry today.
A & B are both correct in that example. This is an exception though!