Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [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 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 3 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Someone who looks after the youngsters and is co-operative . |
| 7 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
| 8 | A new face is a new focus of interest , whether it 's someone the client already knows or someone who comes to the Home on a Friday to do movement or dance , drama , music therapy or a slide show . |
| 9 | The picture tries to portray Charles ‘ as he is at the moment — someone who cares about the world around him , somebody who has become a very caring person . |
| 10 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 11 | The woman 's hands , he says , are those of someone who works for a living — not those of a lady like Kee . |
| 12 | Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A proxy is someone who votes at the polling station for you . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do not think your future is yours it waits upon a telephone |
| 17 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 18 | She 's somebody who comes to the door and tries to sell you some make-up and perfume and toys and things . |
| 19 | but again if , if somebody who knows about the G C S E actual course |
| 20 | But it could not in my judgment , be done simply by a document which itself refers to the contract , and I reject Mr Ritchie 's submission on this … |
| 21 | The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission . |
| 22 | Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She has a health card , which she produces to the cops on demand . |
| 25 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These are intercalated with long nights of insomnia which she spends on the sofa with the radio and Herodotus , having fled her snoring lover Willy ( later Wally ) . |
| 28 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 29 | It requires the teacher to demonstrate the significance which she places upon the children 's resources and judgements . |
| 30 | 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 . |