Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must keep them low because wages are labour costs that have to be deducted from profit ( besides , if the workers do not like the pay there are plenty more around who will take it ! ) . |
| 2 | but then after , not after , before then , I was sitting up waiting to give my bloody when Mrs said |
| 3 | For someone deaf since childhood , poetry was a kind of hearing , fellow poets a life line . |
| 4 | I wish we had someone better than Aschmann , but if that is the best we can do , then we shall have to manage . |
| 5 | Sanyi considers the populace politically immature , ignorant and apathetic : ‘ The people wo n't vote in someone better than Iliescu but we need a clean break with the past . |
| 6 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 7 | Without implying that Lanfranc was an enemy of the monks of the cathedral church , the whole drift of the pope 's account of the incident suggests that the request for a confirmation of the monastic status of the cathedral had come from someone other than Lanfranc : from whom the request came he left entirely unclear . |
| 8 | The seller when making the contract was intending to deal with someone other than B. |
| 9 | In the unlikely event that someone other than Lorton had killed Newley , the murderer might have left behind both guinea and ransom for the simple reason that he did n't know they were there . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell Connie all about it , ’ she invited , relieved to have , for a time , someone other than Memet upon whom to focus her attention , someone more miserable than herself and more … |
| 11 | Though the Company is still evil and still tends to give its spacecraft Conradian names ( 'Sulaco' this time , instead of ‘ Nostromo ’ , suggesting that someone other than Ridley Scott had actually read Nostromo , the devious company man , Burke ( Paul Reiser ) , is now the loner , and he behaves exactly like a Hollywood executive , or agent , intent on a deal . |
| 12 | Quietly but firmly interrupt him , and answer the question yourself ; or alternatively , deliberately ask someone other than Mr Know-All to answer it . |
| 13 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 14 | Herstory is an excellent word , pointing out with wit and elegance that history has too often been the story of men 's lives ; wimmin might be applauded as a useful piece of spelling reform if someone other than feminists had invented it . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had someone other than John Barnes in mind as he paraded outside the ground , but the prophecy held true enough as Liverpool 's Chosen One produced his own version of the Second Coming . |
| 16 | Someone other than Justin now . |
| 17 | This is of equal/greater importance than someone other than Leeds catching scum . |
| 18 | ‘ So he will have to offer it to someone other than Patros ? ’ |
| 19 | However , under outcomes ( a ) or ( b ) , someone other than McAlpine would have to initiate the action ( see Scenario 2 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ And practise on someone other than Harold , ’ she added . |
| 21 | " I said before the match that this would be my last as Captain and I have no reason to change my mind , " he added to a chorus of protest from his side . |
| 22 | In the twenty seventh minute , Abingdon scored their second when Darren Hickey played an excellent ball through to Aries and Aries lobbed it over the advancing keeper into the back of the net with Kevin Connelly following up to make certain . |
| 23 | And their larger than life goalkeeper Joe Paladino , born in St Helens of Scilian parents , admitted : ‘ Altrincham 's Cup tradition is always at the back of our minds . |
| 24 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , and its cheaper than HUMPHRIES 21 |
| 26 | ‘ Sssh , ’ he soothed , folding her closer as protectiveness flooded him . |
| 27 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 28 | ‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk , ’ Moran said with quiet dignity . |
| 29 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've never known anyone who enjoyed being himself more than Jack . |