Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had known someone who looked similar to me , we could have walked down the street together , wearing similar clothes or something ; we 'd be holding each other 's hands in a sense , it would have been easier . |
| 2 | But I must admit , I , I am a bit snobbish in it , I would move heaven and earth to help someone who looked clean and nice and had good manners . |
| 3 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 4 | I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq . |
| 5 | It is , however , committed equally by someone who identifies good with a supernatural property , such as tending to save the soul . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 7 | I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance . |
| 8 | This can make all the difference to someone who feels unsafe alone at home or to partners or friends . |
| 9 | Try to find someone who feels right for you and your children . |
| 10 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 11 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 12 | It had never yet had as its leader someone who represented one of the more extreme parties in the Church — never at least since the days of Archbishop Laud which ended in the archbishop 's head being cut off . |
| 13 | Have you fallen into any obvious traps : failing to make a proper specification of the job requirements in the first place ; not having a really clear picture of the ideal candidate in your mind ; being swayed by an attractive and forceful personality ; doing more talking than listening ; looking for people with your own characteristics ; appointing someone who lacks some of the points you had decided were essential ; choosing the best of the bunch instead of rethinking ; rushing the interviews in circumstances which do not allow a proper conversation ? |
| 14 | And I think the police would be fairly sympathetic when I explain that I 'm trying to protect my wife from someone who sends sick , threatening letters . ’ |
| 15 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 16 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 17 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 18 | Some people , though , use humour constantly to avoid issues — see Chapter Five — and someone who does this will end up being regarded as class buffoon . ) |
| 19 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 20 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 21 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 22 | I know someone who had that done and then later on they had their voice box taken out , cos he had cancer of the throat , ooh , |
| 23 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 24 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What good is half a house in the middle of Scotland to someone who spends all her time down in London ? ’ |
| 26 | Well , sex mainly , and the mistaken male view that women dream of having a wild and torrid fling in the afore-mentioned potting shed with someone who spends more time with mulch and manure than Gillette shower gel . |
| 27 | ANYONE can make a mistake , so it would be unfair , would n't it , to poke fun at someone who wrote Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea ( instead of Protection of the Sea ) . |
| 28 | ( I know someone who grew one such refugee into a prizewinning Koi … ) |
| 29 | As someone who likes musical comedies to be comedies , the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible . |
| 30 | Exhilarating stuff , but a lot of the excitement comes , I suspect , from the sense of sitting alongside someone who understands such ideas rather than really grasping them yourself . |