Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 2 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 3 | And I see he read Modern Languages , ’ said the Bishop with the complacency of someone making a sound inference , ‘ which would doubtless be a help to him . ’ |
| 4 | Current age , twenty five , the likelihood of somebody having a heart attack or developing cancer before sixty five , heart attack one in ten males , one in thirty nine females , cancer one in ten males , one in ten females . |
| 5 | ‘ Like someone pushing a meat market barrow in the direction of Smithfield . ’ |
| 6 | How could she separate the reality of John Latimer 's war from the thin gruel of romantic rubbish with which she had always associated these lighthearted , devil-may-care young pilots , with their positively foolhardy absence of nerves and their propensity for turning the Battle of Britain into something resembling a schoolboy jape ! |
| 7 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 8 | The wine arrived in something resembling a hospital urine bottle . |
| 9 | THERE 'S a free pair of skis worth £150 for anyone booking a ski holiday this month with Swiss Travel Service . |
| 10 | Otherwise information is filtered through other books : for example , an archaeologist studying the archaeology of a particular region might publish a book which includes a summary of the site information , and which in turn is used as a source by someone writing a school textbook . |