Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |
| 2 | Like any celebrity city , Los Angeles is rife with gossip and in Hollywood , anyone who gets ’ completely loaded ’ is nota burping lager lout , just someone who drinks slightly more than you do . |
| 3 | ‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said . |
| 4 | While this may be acquired partly through acquiring delegated tasks it is little use choosing someone who feels totally inadequate when faced with new responsibilities . |
| 5 | It may be quicker for someone who hears well to reply , particularly when they know the answer and the question is unimportant , but this must be avoided at all cost . |
| 6 | Someone who hears well might be told : ‘ Disappointing news I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | By signalling attitudes and intentions towards one another — it is off-putting to try to communicate honestly with someone who remains totally bland , giving no verbal or non-verbal clues as to agreement or disagreement . |
| 8 | Consider the predicament of native speakers watching a film with a bad soundtrack , or speaking to someone who talks indistinctly or in an unfamiliar dialect . |
| 9 | I am someone who talks too much |
| 10 | you get either Income Support or Family Credit or are the partner of someone who gets either Income Support or Family Credit or |
| 11 | Family Credit or are the partner of someone who gets either Income Support or Family Credit or |
| 12 | Family Credit or are the partner of someone who gets either Income Support or Family Credit . |
| 13 | Family Credit or are the partner or dependent child of someone who gets either Income Support or Family credit or |
| 14 | Family Credit or are the partner of someone who gets either Income Support or Family Credit or |
| 15 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |
| 16 | They saw him also as a trail-blazer , someone who goes ahead of others and prepares the way . |
| 17 | He rationalized : ‘ I always admire someone who goes far without qualifications . ’ |
| 18 | She sniffed , and smiled a bit , but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who does n't understand you it 's someone who understands perfectly , before you 've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood . |
| 19 | But you 'd be hard pressed to find someone who takes as much time and care with a musical instrument as Tony Zemaitis . |
| 20 | ‘ You look pretty sober for someone who 's just started on whisky , ’ said Sarah as they walked towards the bus stop . |
| 21 | It — it hurts , being around someone who 's just killed someone … or hurt them . |
| 22 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 23 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 24 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 25 | Show me a frowning British woman on a beach , and I 'll show someone who 's just spotted a mid-thigh clump the wax did n't reach . |
| 26 | As a thousand fists beat as one , Flav , the rap equivalent of The Sugarcubes ' Einar , breaks into his regular spoilt kid routine , jumping up and down like someone who 's just had his pocket money stopped , while the ‘ menacing ’ S1Ws , clad in slick white sailor suits , make an appearance as evacuees from a Person advert . |
| 27 | ‘ For someone who 's just attempted something incredibly stupid , you 've got nerve , I will say that , ’ he observed , his gaze flickering to the comb in her white-knuckled fingers . |
| 28 | As a thousand fists beat as one , Flav , the rap equivalent of The Sugarcubes ' Einar , breaks into his regular spoilt kid routine , jumping up and down like someone who 's just had his pocket money stopped , while the ‘ menacing ’ S1Ws , clad in slick white sailor suits , make an appearance as evacuees from a Person advert . |
| 29 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 30 | ‘ For someone who 's only been here twice , she seems very familiar with the layout of the house , ’ Jessamy retorted . |