Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 2 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 3 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 4 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 5 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 6 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 8 | She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 9 | As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 10 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 11 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 12 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 13 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 14 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 15 | One is doing something with a Mouli not recommended by Prue Leith 's School of Food and Wine diploma course ; another is bending over a table ; a third is spitting on to his palms . |
| 16 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 17 | " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … " |
| 18 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 19 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 20 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 21 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 22 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 23 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 24 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |