Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 3 | Business Traveller recently published a letter from someone who stayed in the Inter-Continental hotel in Kinshasa . |
| 4 | The heretic was someone who quarrelled with the fundamental teaching of the Christian Church , not someone who criticized the trappings of religion . |
| 5 | He held that the judge had done nothing which went outside the proper area of his inquiry . |
| 6 | I think I 've got a chance with one I sent off the other day . ’ |
| 7 | The first one is the one I played on the entire record of ‘ Question And Answer ’ . |
| 8 | but , she 's the one I spoke to the other day , she says you 're a character |
| 9 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 10 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 11 | Johnson believed good humour an acquired quality , one which came with the ageing process , and came of learning to please others rather than the child 's instant gratification of pleasing itself . |
| 12 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |
| 13 | Well try the the one you tried in the first equation |
| 14 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 15 | The Captain was an egocentric man , one who believed in the great blueprints of life . |
| 16 | She was the one who gained by the exquisite experience , was n't she ? |
| 17 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 18 | Uncle used to do a bit because he liked fiddling with machines , and the one we had in the early days was borrowed and not really suitable . |
| 19 | But this 'll be do you remember the one we went to the other day ? |
| 20 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 21 | United lit the fuse for a quality cup tie by giving everything they had against the big boys from the premier league . |
| 22 | These candidates simply vomited over the page everything they knew upon the two topics ; they made no attempt to bring their knowledge into relation with the question , and did not even divide off their answer by the ( a ) and ( b ) of the question . |
| 23 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 24 | Chen studied the menu a moment , trying to recognise something he knew amongst the hundred exotic brews , then looked up again , shrugging . |
| 25 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 26 | While Enzo Ferrari always had the ability to attract the best drivers in the world , including the one he regarded as the best of all — the legendary Italian Tazio Nuvolari — the one man he never managed to get was Britain 's Stirling Moss . |
| 27 | The mullah was very hungry and when he heard that the Emperor was providing a free iftar to anyone who came to the Red Fort he immediately tied up his donkey and went along . |
| 28 | Anyone who went to the tall ships race in Belfast and saw 500,000 people thronging through the city centre day after day could see the determination of the people of Belfast to lead their lives normally . |
| 29 | Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament . |
| 30 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |