Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You talk as if desire were one-sided , ’ he countered softly , ‘ as if it is only I who wants you . |
| 3 | If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ . |
| 4 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 5 | It seems to me that the problem is coming from the front off side spring settling 15mm more than the rear-Being someone who hates anything that 's not as it should be , it is driving me crackers . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone who hates your guts . |
| 7 | If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet . |
| 8 | Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit . |
| 9 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 10 | Vicarious means a ‘ standin ’ , someone who replaces you . |
| 11 | So I do n't flatter myself that someone who gets my beliefs will automatically get true ones . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not travelling with someone who thinks I 'm here intent on blackmail . |
| 13 | It 's no fun living with someone who thinks she 's a cross between Virginia Woolf and the Queen Mother . |
| 14 | So the best source from which to obtain your ferrets has to be someone deeply committed to the animals , someone who keeps his own working and breeding stock and who from time to time may have a surplus . |
| 15 | How can a child or young person immediately grieve for someone who denies their existence in that way ? |
| 16 | Someone who admits I might know a little more than they do . |
| 17 | You show me someone who says they come from such a set-up and I will show you a very clever liar . |
| 18 | Someone who says there is not actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word beautiful had a vivid and important use . |
| 19 | Someone who says there is no actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word ‘ beautiful ’ had a vivid and important use . |
| 20 | So ( ii ) someone who says he believes , expects , hopes , or whatever , such-and-such is stating that he believes , expects , hopes , or whatever , such-and-such . |
| 21 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 22 | Being labelled a " slag " or a " sleep-around " is something that destroys a girl 's reputation , and she often treads a fine line between being labelled as someone who does it or someone who does n't — " if you do it you 're a slag , if you do n't you 're a tight bitch . " |
| 23 | ‘ You make me sound like someone who spends their entire day in front of the nearest mirror and never travels without a cosmetic tray in their handbag . ’ |
| 24 | As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him . |
| 25 | I did n't like being called a rowdie , but then I did n't exactly have the time or resources to sue for defamation , if that 's the legal terminology for someone who slags you off in public . |
| 26 | Is there someone who likes them without currants ? |
| 27 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 28 | Most of us know , or have encountered in some way , an example of someone who speaks his mind , and does so with such gentleness and grace he rarely alienates anyone . |
| 29 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 30 | ‘ The justiciar is chiefly concerned , ’ said Warrenne , ‘ that Brecon and Radnor should be in the hands of someone who understands their importance to England . |