Example sentences of "[indef pn] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talk casually of someone drowning in work or drinking themselves to death long before a terminal illness shows itself or their suicidal drive is detected . |
| 2 | He heard Murtach shouting , someone banging on timber frantically . |
| 3 | He says he looked like someone dying of AIDS . |
| 4 | Few meetings of more than three people work successfully without someone acting as chairman . |
| 5 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 6 | Whatever Beryl believes or pretends to believe about her brother being mugged , he was in fact deliberately murdered by someone lying in wait for him on the scaffolding . |
| 7 | ‘ Why , it sounded like someone crying for help , ’ thought Deborah . |
| 8 | It is of course easier said than done for someone suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan . |
| 9 | For someone suffering from addiction there is no such thing as free choice : he or she gets unconditional damage from the addictive use of drugs or alcohol . |
| 10 | It is little if any easier for someone suffering from Chemical Dependency simply to stop using alcohol or drugs . |
| 11 | He let the opening float over him : undulating strings , like someone stirring from sleep , which rose to one crashing climax , followed by another . |
| 12 | When a vacancy arose within this group of social workers in 1983 it was decided to appoint someone specialising in work with under fives with special needs . |
| 13 | Rachel heard someone moaning with pleasure and realised it was her . |
| 14 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 15 | Anyone in doubt about the identity of someone collecting for charity should check with the organisation they claim to be with . |
| 16 | Erm there 'll be someone talking about cereal production , there 'll be someone talking about milk production , this sort of thing . |
| 17 | Erm there 'll be someone talking about cereal production , there 'll be someone talking about milk production , this sort of thing . |
| 18 | Conversely , they often assume , as do others , that someone working on religion theoretically and empirically does so from the standpoint of a believer , with the underlying assumption , ‘ Why else would anyone be interested in such a traditional , out-dated , and unimportant institution ? ’ |
| 19 | As someone working in television , I learned as I went along . |
| 20 | If it had to finance that by raising its own taxes , Scotland might become a socialist state along Albanian lines with high taxes , centralised planning and everyone living in council houses and enjoying the beauties of the socialist system in its most untrammelled form . |
| 21 | Many kibbutzim are founded on the Marxist principle of ‘ from everyone according to ability — to everyone according to need ’ , the guiding ideal being the creation of an egalitarian society . |
| 22 | Many kibbutzim are founded on the Marxist principle of ‘ from everyone according to ability — to everyone according to need ’ , the guiding ideal being the creation of an egalitarian society . |
| 23 | Yeah , but the other thing was , it was n't that , towards the end of the programme , they were n't so much who fired first , its , erm , there is , there is no evidence either way to support either story , the Irish say there was no Government , there was nobody running for Government you know , said that they had three |
| 24 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 25 | Is there any way you can see these things being made such as the horn somebody working in horn for instance ? |
| 26 | And everyone going to Bingo |
| 27 | ‘ Slavonian grebe ’ had everyone rushing to starboard . |
| 28 | In the following years the number of papers rose , culminating in sixteen in 1988 ( during which Pons wrote 36 papers but still none relating to test-tube fusion ) . |
| 29 | Part 5 considered two contending theories of perversion and homosexuality , one deriving from psychoanalysis , the other from anthropological , sociological , and historical perspectives , in which Foucault 's History of Sexuality was both a culmination and a new departure . |
| 30 | a series of graded lessons each one consisting of pronunciation and structure ( grammar ) drills and a short conversation . |