Example sentences of "someone [Wh pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , someone who was earning £12,000 per annum would receive a pension of £8,000 per annum . |
| 2 | In Bishopgate Motor Finance Corporation v. Transport Brakes Ltd. ( 1949 C.A. ) someone who was hiring a car under a hire purchase agreement offered it for sale by auction at Maidstone market . |
| 3 | This is apparent from Helby v. Matthews ( see Chapter 17 ) , where someone who was hiring a piano on hire purchase terms , sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 4 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 5 | ‘ Does anyone really believe that Israel will sit down with someone who was convicted or involved directly in violence against Jews ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | You can see why he did n't want to acknowledge a family connection with someone who was convicted of murder . |
| 7 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 8 | A at what point would you first erm see someone who was expecting a baby ? |
| 9 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 10 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 11 | As she was also trying out several other would-be choreographers and having new ballets made for Sadler 's Wells by Ashton and Howard too , she could hardly have done more for someone who was regarded as promising ( by some people as highly promising ) but unproven . |
| 12 | And possibly someone who was trying to help them . |
| 13 | We have n't finished the process of elimination , but there was hardly anybody in the club in the afternoon except the residents and a few servants , and why the servants should try to blow up someone who was trying to improve their conditions is beyond me . ’ |
| 14 | Helped someone who was injured . |
| 15 | Much of it just fails to scan correctly — very odd for someone who was lecturing and giving tutorials on English poetry . |
| 16 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 17 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 18 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 19 | Well , the other day someone who was explaining how AEA gives its customers a ‘ competitive edge ’ came up with a simple , yet brilliant clarification of the phrase using a tale about two friends . |
| 20 | The Germans perhaps thought it was a huge joke to sell a long-coated bitch to someone who was to try to re-establish the breed in another country . |
| 21 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 22 | Someone er asked it was someone who was deliving , delivering the erm election the polling cards . |
| 23 | At first sight it is astonishing that the Alternative Service Book of the Church of England should commemorate someone who was imprisoned for refusing to attend its services , who wrote a treatise against its Prayer Book , and who in his memoirs counted among his sins his reverence for that Church as a child . |
| 24 | When someone who was putting on the records said : ‘ Fourth movement , called The Storm , ’ I wondered how the music would compare with the storm outside . |
| 25 | In the evening Kalchu went round the village from house to house until he found someone who was going to the Bazaar the following day . |
| 26 | ‘ But I have to be honest and say I never marked her as someone who was going to become a great journalist . |
| 27 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
| 28 | Police are want particularly to contact someone who was driving a black K-registration car near the green at Writtle at about 3 pm on Wednesday . |
| 29 | This is probably the first time that someone who was acquainted with the central figure of such an enterprise has taken part in its creation : as if Tim Rice had known Eva Peron . |
| 30 | Paul Thorfinnsson woke to find himself lying , his hair whipping his face , in the arms of someone who was running . |