Example sentences of "someone who [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ .
2 Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value
3 It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers .
4 Someone who hates your guts .
5 If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet .
6 Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit .
7 For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) .
8 Vicarious means a ‘ standin ’ , someone who replaces you .
9 So I do n't flatter myself that someone who gets my beliefs will automatically get true ones .
10 ‘ I 'm not travelling with someone who thinks I 'm here intent on blackmail .
11 It 's no fun living with someone who thinks she 's a cross between Virginia Woolf and the Queen Mother .
12 So the best source from which to obtain your ferrets has to be someone deeply committed to the animals , someone who keeps his own working and breeding stock and who from time to time may have a surplus .
13 How can a child or young person immediately grieve for someone who denies their existence in that way ?
14 Someone who admits I might know a little more than they do .
15 You show me someone who says they come from such a set-up and I will show you a very clever liar .
16 Someone who says there is not actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word beautiful had a vivid and important use .
17 Someone who says there is no actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word ‘ beautiful ’ had a vivid and important use .
18 So ( ii ) someone who says he believes , expects , hopes , or whatever , such-and-such is stating that he believes , expects , hopes , or whatever , such-and-such .
19 Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come .
20 Being labelled a " slag " or a " sleep-around " is something that destroys a girl 's reputation , and she often treads a fine line between being labelled as someone who does it or someone who does n't — " if you do it you 're a slag , if you do n't you 're a tight bitch . "
21 ‘ You make me sound like someone who spends their entire day in front of the nearest mirror and never travels without a cosmetic tray in their handbag . ’
22 As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him .
23 I did n't like being called a rowdie , but then I did n't exactly have the time or resources to sue for defamation , if that 's the legal terminology for someone who slags you off in public .
24 Is there someone who likes them without currants ?
25 For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience .
26 Most of us know , or have encountered in some way , an example of someone who speaks his mind , and does so with such gentleness and grace he rarely alienates anyone .
27 ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site .
28 ‘ The justiciar is chiefly concerned , ’ said Warrenne , ‘ that Brecon and Radnor should be in the hands of someone who understands their importance to England .
29 in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about .
30 WH : ‘ C1 is sort of someone who manages their own business , and D is an unskilled labourer . ’
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