Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data comes in almost without intervention , fills in the pages , and someone just checks it to make sure it fits and erm that 's a great system . |
| 2 | Someone close brings you great pleasure and joy now . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone still loves you ! ’ |
| 4 | Goffman ( 1981 : 150 ) cites one type of example : if someone repeatedly tells us to shut the window , we can finally respond by repeating his words in a strident pitch , enacting a satirical version of his utterance ( " say-foring " ) . |
| 5 | And knowing someone automatically makes you feel close to him . |
| 6 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 7 | The censor at the moment happens to be the Medical Officer attached to Brigade H.Q How can one possibly write a love letter to someone when someone else reads it first , and draws at random a blue pencil through your choicest lines ? |
| 8 | The chief mark of that period was a new confidence in the power of reason , as opposed to acceptance of authority , to discover truth : we find things out , not simply by believing what someone else tells us , but by considering the evidence , reflecting upon it , and accepting what can ‘ prove itself at the bar of reason ’ . |
| 9 | I 'll eat anything provided someone else gets it ready . |
| 10 | Before someone else gets it . |
| 11 | In other words , having a space open to all , where you 're a bit of a showman and hope someone else likes it as much as you do . |
| 12 | Someone else calls him a ‘ big softy ’ . |
| 13 | You ca n't always wait until someone else tries it . |
| 14 | We all know intuitively that if someone firmly believes they are inadequate and worthless , that the world is a rotten place and that life is full of suffering , then they will not have a joyous , exuberant and loving life . |
| 15 | And we get songs that people send into the office and once in a while we 'll come up with something that somebody just sends us . |
| 16 | Nobody ever takes it too hard if a blackmail victim gets nasty . |
| 17 | Nobody ever reads them . ’ |
| 18 | Denice says nobody ever asks her out , and we say we find this hard to believe . |
| 19 | ‘ Nobody ever asks him to anything , that 's why we did , for a joke . |
| 20 | Despite the number of golfing umbrellas you see around , advertising everything from Building Societies to aftershave , nobody ever uses them , they jump into cabs when it rains . |
| 21 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 22 | Nobody ever tells us . |
| 23 | ‘ At the risk of sounding self-pitying — a bad habit I 've been trying to break — nobody ever gives me anything . |
| 24 | A death is always exciting , always makes you realise how alive you are — how vulnerable but so-far-lucky , but the death of somebody close gives you a good excuse to go a bit crazy for a while and do things that would otherwise be inexcusable . |
| 25 | Cos I do n't usually have a car , somebody usually takes me . |
| 26 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 27 | Cos in the nobody really likes you know snow snowmen and things like that . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody even knows you 're here . |
| 29 | I had the microphone like that nobody even knows it 's on there do n't take any notice of it . |
| 30 | Nobody here blames you for listening . |