Example sentences of "someone [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although two points clear of the pack , the writing is on the wall for Aberdeen unless someone starts banging goals away . |
| 2 | In fact , wherever someone needs to keep track of contacts and customers , ACT ! provides the ideal user-friendly solution The product is fast to set-up and use , tasks being accomplished through pop-up windows and pull-down menus . |
| 3 | Socialists believe in greater equality in society : ‘ A more equal society will be a more prosperous society and a more peaceful society ’ ( Roy Hattersley , Hansard 16 April , 1987 ) , but they are criticised for favouring policies of distribution rather than production — ‘ Someone has to create wealth before the politicians fall to sharing that wealth out ’ ( Kenneth Clarke , Hansard 6 April 1987 ) . |
| 4 | There 's a murky region of the VDU , as if someone has rubbed grease on to it . |
| 5 | What I , one of the things that I , I think you must have somewhere , and that is that at some stage you order something , you get it in and somehow someone has to tell accounts that yes , they can pay that invoice . |
| 6 | But in one corner of the churchyard , not far from the rotting wooden gate in the surrounding wall , there stands a cross which someone has taken trouble to keep upright and its inscription legible . |
| 7 | You see , the face is a coconut , and someone has drawn eyes , a nose , and a mouth on it . |
| 8 | A valuable way of concealing them is to have bars , stripes or blobs of colour that appear to overflow from one section to the next , as though someone has splashed ink across the animal . |
| 9 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 10 | Psychosis is when there is , at times , such severe distress that someone seems to lose touch with the familiar world altogether . |
| 11 | When someone decides to take offence and be uncooperative during a show it can have a nasty effect on the atmosphere . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone 's got Rose 's key , ’ he said aloud . |
| 13 | three months half salary , you know someone 's got money for at least six months . |