Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 2 | A comparable version of this is the face made by someone who barges into a room unannounced expeeting to speak to a friend , only to find that this friend is engaged in an intimate professional consultation with another colleague . |
| 3 | The woman 's hands , he says , are those of someone who works for a living — not those of a lady like Kee . |
| 4 | Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer . |
| 5 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 6 | However , by chance , an acquaintance of yours who works as a salesman for a machine tool company has visited Mr Forbes earlier in the year . |
| 7 | Do not think your future is yours it waits upon a telephone |
| 8 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 9 | We have a form of presidential government in which she operates like a sovereign in her court ’ , which is just about the most toughly worded formulation of the case for Mrs Thatcher as Queen Boadicea driving a chariot of conviction politics through the conventions of collective Cabinet government . |
| 10 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 11 | Former Vogue model Rachel , who lives in Liverpool , features in a television advert in which she lies in a bath eating a Flake bar . |
| 12 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 13 | The feeling under an old yew tree is quite different to that which one experiences beneath a chestnut , a willow or an oak . |
| 14 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 15 | The concept of rationality , which he promotes as a feature of modernizing societies , is tied to the process of communicative action rather than to the subjective and individualistic premises of much modern philosophy and social theory . |
| 16 | In this account Althusser has challenged the idea that radical social changes such as revolutions — which he treats as a blueprint for change in general — are the result of a single contradiction in society . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's been to the United States three times during the past two years and returned with large sums of money , which he carries in a money belt . |
| 18 | Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child . |
| 19 | For his third exhibition at Bernard Jacobson , Maurice Cockrill has made ‘ The Four Seasons ’ , four oval canvases which he shows with a group of new pictures on door panels . |
| 20 | This object may be something which he sees from a distance and so gives the rider due warning that he will probably shy . |
| 21 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 22 | The mill uses the raw wool to produce cloth which it sells to a coat factory for £21 . |
| 23 | The rufous humming-bird , like the golden-winged sunbird , feeds on nectar , which it takes from a territory of about 60–4000 flowers . |
| 24 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |
| 25 | The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 26 | Of course , it should be remembered that s3 subjects the terms to which it applies to a test of reasonableness , and where individual terms have been varied for a particular customer ( situation ( a ) ) , or where the terms have been approved by a trade association ( situation ( b ) ) or negotiated between the parties ( situation ( e ) ) they are more likely to satisfy the test of reasonableness . |
| 27 | McNair denies that there is a rule of international law ‘ permitting a State to assign to C rights which it holds under a treaty made with B ’ , and could find no basis for the validity of such a principle . |
| 28 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 29 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 30 | And it 's not everyone who comes to a meeting who wants to see you win . |