Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is pointed at the receiver and pressed staff hear a bleep warning them someone needs help getting in . |
| 2 | Yeah elimination of the off glide on a word such as my which becomes ma . |
| 3 | ‘ For someone who hates violence , ’ I agreed , ‘ you used force with great skill . |
| 4 | These ‘ groundbreaking enhancement techniques ’ were devised by a museum educator with a taste for Jungian psychology , in consultation with a team comprising a cognitive scientist , someone described as ‘ representing the field of environmental psychology ’ ( the study of how our surroundings affect us ) , and a Jungian depth psychologist ( ‘ someone who helps visitors draw on both conscious and unconscious experiences with the artworks ’ ) . |
| 5 | That 's a tale for someone who tells tales . |
| 6 | Around half know of someone who uses drugs . |
| 7 | You may view yourself as a ‘ straight talker ’ — someone who uses words sparingly and appropriately to convey significant messages . |
| 8 | One normally thinks in terms of the 3 year rule as applying to a person who emigrates from the United Kingdom whilst one considers that the 17 year rule is applicable to someone who becomes resident in the United Kingdom whilst retaining his overseas domicile under general principles . |
| 9 | Anyone who find , Hobbes 's view intellectually attractive will easily hit upon his thesis that someone who feels pity is simply moved by the self-centred thought ‘ that the like calamity may befall himself ’ , and that people are benevolent only because this produces self-satisfaction . |
| 10 | A benefit paid to people under 65 who spend 35 hours or more per week looking after someone who receives Attendance Allowance . |
| 11 | A journalist is someone who hears shouts from a river , rushes up and asks , ‘ Are you all right ? ’ |
| 12 | Their word for policeman was kanimainjit — ‘ someone who ties people up ’ . |
| 13 | Thus , in Doughty ( 1986 ) , the crying of a 17-day-old child was held to be sufficient to fall within the requirement ( even though such an infant is not aware of the significance of what he or she is doing ) , whereas someone who loses self-control after a storm or explosion has destroyed his property would be outside the requirement . |
| 14 | Biff Tundrish was someone who bashes piles of turds . |
| 15 | And an adherent of the church is understood in the highland region , the largest single local government area in the European Community to be someone who attends worship regularly . |
| 16 | Someone who relays messages and passes on little notes . |
| 17 | To someone who likes people as well as buildings , the industrial towns are the hope and life of England . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Seb , you 've already helped her more than anyone else — more than any of her own people have — but right now she needs someone who understands Romany ways , and someone who cares for her too . |
| 19 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 20 | If , say , he borrows £5,000 three times , repaying it each time , he is treated as severely as someone who borrows £15,000 outright . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you been associated with someone who demands glamour ? ’ she asked innocently , then immediately regretted the question . |
| 22 | If only half the stories are true , this is someone who attracts trouble . |
| 23 | But he believes the attacker 's someone who knows horses . |
| 24 | When they get to the hotel have someone to greet them , someone who knows names , and can help with transport , luggage , the pre-registration formalities . |
| 25 | Someone who finds people turning to him ( or her ) for spiritual counsel or direction might start by considering the importance of four kinds of knowledge — of God , of the tools of his trade , of others , and of himself . |
| 26 | Someone who excludes meat and fish from their diet |
| 27 | But if you come across as a push-over , albeit a likeable one ( but not someone who commands respect ) , study and use the control tactics . |
| 28 | It 's very difficult to find someone who draws or paints with passion , someone who makes monuments , who 's just honestly in love with what they 're observing . |
| 29 | FROM THE LONGMAN REGISTER OF NEW WORDS : advance man noun someone who makes arrangements for visits and appearances by an eminent person , and goes in advance to ensure that they proceed smoothly . |
| 30 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |