Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know someone who did , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 3 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 4 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 5 | That paper was abstracted by someone who did not know Polish . |
| 6 | Have you ever had the experience of being met at an airport or a station by someone who did n't know you ? |
| 7 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 8 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 9 | There was no point in talking about it to someone who did not know the personalities involved and could not appreciate the circumstances . |
| 10 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 11 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 12 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 13 | Speaking after the meeting to someone who did attend it , I was told that the arkies ' interference with the rally last year comprised bluff and empty threats ! |
| 14 | ‘ Then it was an accident , or someone who did n't care whom they killed . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , supposing the sherry was poisoned , and supposing it was aimed at you , then it could only have been put there by someone who did n't know your habits ? ’ |
| 16 | In this case the innocent purchaser had agreed to buy a car from , as he later discovered , someone who did not own it , on terms that property in the car would pass to him upon payment of the price . |
| 17 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 18 | A ‘ lady ’ was definable as someone who did no work , hence who ordered someone else to do it , her superiority being established by this relationship . |
| 19 | Probably with someone who did n't insult his family . |
| 20 | Even if you do n't carry the gene , one of our children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren might meet someone who did and repeat the tragedy of Johnnie all over again . |
| 21 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 22 | Was there nobody who did n't know ? |
| 23 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking maybe she had a husband or a brother or somebody who did n't think much of the set-up . ’ |
| 25 | Er I do n't know shorthand but I thought y somebody who did know shorthand would probably have a less hard time than I do writing down notes . |
| 26 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 27 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 28 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 29 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 30 | NB : everyone who did NOW VOTES TORY ! ! ! |