Example sentences of "someone [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will always be necessary for someone to attend the registrar 's office in person . |
| 2 | He could touch — he could caress — Meh'Lindi in this murderous alien guise like someone stroking a kitten , as though he was absolved from the normal punctilios of duty and common sense . |
| 3 | In the last century , someone asked the missionary David Livingstone where he wanted to go . |
| 4 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 5 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 6 | Someone asked the reason for such haste . |
| 7 | Someone checked the car through the closed-circuit monitor and the gates opened , allowing him to drive into the courtyard . |
| 8 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 9 | In Ghia form it 's a well trimmed and equipped car , but more than this there 's a dynamic cohesion to it : somewhere along the line someone got the handling , ride and steering working in harmony rather than against each other . |
| 10 | If someone got the pendulum , gave it a flick |
| 11 | Someone rode a bicycle through it , and the jelly and the bicycle disappeared . |
| 12 | Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris . |
| 13 | Someone made a joke Anne did not get , ‘ … only the best , because graded grains make finer flour … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know you said humans think someone made the world in a week ? |
| 15 | He would retain the right to appoint the Prime Minister , but with the proviso that he choose someone reflecting the majority in parliament . |
| 16 | I 'm too busy trying to make a tape of someone mowing the lawn who is also trying to watch the Cup Final , who is trying to get the rest of the family to shut up . |
| 17 | Someone shuts the curtain . |
| 18 | It may be useful to have someone to steady the dog 's muzzle . |
| 19 | Pen-based computing is a major step in that direction , Until someone builds a computer you can talk to that is n't the size of a filing cabinet there is likely to be an easier way to communicate with your technology . |
| 20 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 21 | I 've heard bits and pieces that someone overheard a conversation with your Malcolm Laycock but I have n't heard anything since . |
| 22 | In the meantime , he says , clients of conservators also need to act responsibly when they entrust a work of art to someone : ‘ They spend more time and more effort looking for an auto mechanic than they do finding someone to restore a work of art ’ . |
| 23 | Note the offence of obstructing someone assisting a constable . |
| 24 | Two new classrooms were being opened that day , a tree was planted and we watched traditional Lesotho dancing ( the dancers kneel in a line behind each other and just jerk their necks and shoulders , like double-jointed ostriches , while someone plays a drum ) . |
| 25 | Er well they 've got a piped organ there and er oh someone plays the organ yes . |
| 26 | This is one of the oldest games around and Kate Greenaway 's Book of Games published in 1889 describes it as follows : Someone plays the piano . |
| 27 | Someone laid a spear or a piece of wood at the top of the steps whilst the hospitaller was at his usual place at the far end of the parapet walk , near Salt Tower . ’ |
| 28 | Why does n't someone throw a hand grenade ? ’ |
| 29 | Had someone broken a limb ? |
| 30 | She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial . |