Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have got out the padded shoulders and the four-inch heels had I known you were going to appear looking like someone whom Central Casting had sent to play — ’ her gaze flicked over his well-groomed appearance and immaculate suit ‘ — the Wall Street tycoon , ’ she said astringently . |
| 2 | She said at the weekend : ‘ If I have a new relationship it will be with someone my own age . ’ |
| 3 | The fact is I 'm looking for someone who one day could take over from Morgan . |
| 4 | It 's just , you 're my idea of someone who this sort of thing would never happen to . |
| 5 | I would like you to represent my interests in the above project as someone whose private property may be adversely affected by the construction of a barrage across the river Usk by Newport Borough Council . |
| 6 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 7 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 8 | IT USUALLY starts with a phone-call from someone whose first words are : ‘ You do n't know me … ’ |
| 9 | Williams presented himself as someone whose entire life had been blighted by the curse of British colonialism ; even at Oxford , was he was not denied a fellowship because of his colour ? |
| 10 | Apology , in other words , is aimed at convincing anyone interested that the miscreant recognises his fault , and by that token alone , is to be regarded as someone whose typical tendency is to observe the conventions . |
| 11 | One word of warning though : if you are someone whose daily life involves a strong competitive element , you would do well to avoid too much in the way of competitive sport ( squash , tennis and so on ) as your form of exercise as these will only tend to maintain an already high level of stress . |
| 12 | In part , Southey 's changed manner reflected his desperate irritation with someone whose procrastinating habits had become unignorable in the cramped spaces of 25 College Street ( Coleridge admitted to Southey that ‘ you sate down and wrote — I used to saunter about and think what I should write ’ ) . |
| 13 | It must also be recognized that hospital admission can prove a particularly daunting experience for someone whose basic life-style is totally different from the British one . |
| 14 | Someone whose social aspirations demand a disparate jumble of old buildings , to give them substance . ’ |
| 15 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 16 | But what if there is someone whose own fulfilment is simply not best promoted by this sort of relationship with others ? |
| 17 | He should pick on someone his own size , not two young kids who were near to tears . |
| 18 | When finally he did broach the subject of the ball , Isobel refused to take his invitation seriously and said he should take someone his own age . |
| 19 | Pick on someone your own size |
| 20 | Then you can move on towards making a stable relationship with someone your own age if that is what you feel you need and want . |
| 21 | It 's called a Saturday Night Special , an' it 's more effective than anythin' them martial arts freaks kin dream up . ’ |
| 22 | The A&R work in smaller companies , when there is n't somebody whose sole job is sitting and listening to tapes , gets done when it can be . |
| 23 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 24 | ‘ Christ , it 's one them white buggers , ’ yelped Billy . |
| 25 | That one I that second paper she put the answers in so |
| 26 | ‘ It was something my old boss said , ’ replied the interviewee . |
| 27 | ‘ It is one my great pleasures to attend the games and analyse the matches , ’ he said . |
| 28 | So Canberra turned round with a 12-0 lead cut to 12-10 , knowing they were not going to get everything their own way . |
| 29 | Even after a decade in which they had more-or-less everything their own way , they were still railing against the old enemy . |
| 30 | The wealthy , upwardly mobile , aggressive and sophisticated certainly benefited from the colonial administration of law and order , but they did not always have everything their own way . |