Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 2 | So it is a question of not allowing someone who commits a summary offence to ‘ escape liability ’ for an indictable offence . |
| 3 | Someone who commits an offence can be prosecuted in a criminal court and fined ( or , sometimes , imprisoned ) . |
| 4 | ‘ An actor is someone who plays a role , tells a story , ’ he explains , ‘ and a star is someone who 's always acting in front of everybody . |
| 5 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 6 | Maybe I can cite Page because he was someone who understood the studio so well . |
| 7 | I think it was once said that the mark of an undergraduate is someone who turns every discussion into an argument . |
| 8 | ‘ Murder , ’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . |
| 9 | She knew someone who knew a woman . |
| 10 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 11 | ‘ It would not be applied to someone who uses the house as their family home but works away from home for most of the week , ’ said Mr Soley . |
| 12 | Neither have I been someone who devotes an enormous amount of time to the care of my own face and figure . |
| 13 | Maybe he/she is right ; often he/she is not and may recruit someone who becomes a liability . |
| 14 | Now you 're thinking of sharing it all with someone who feels the same . |
| 15 | But someone who asked the Adjutant , ‘ How do you know ? ’ would either be a stranger to the army , or be making a joke . |
| 16 | The authors state that a baseline blood sample may be requested from someone who sustains a needlestick injury , whereas a baseline blood sample should always be taken after occupational exposure . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a claim of discrimination can be brought by someone who lacks the necessary qualifying service for unfair dismissal rights . |
| 18 | The term ‘ sir ’ retains respect while ‘ madam ’ refers to someone who keeps a brothel . |
| 19 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 20 | There 's Jane Eyre where the wedding is interrupted by someone who says the groom is already married . |
| 21 | The comradeship so typical of the occupational culture of the police does not extend to ‘ covering the ass ’ ( a phrase made eloquent in the sociology of policing ) of someone who lets the whole side down . |
| 22 | Take the word ‘ loyal ’ and consider someone who deplores the kind of character it indicates . |
| 23 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 24 | We could be free , or we could marry again , someone who suited the new people we have become . |
| 25 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 26 | Nara was sent to get a bowl of milk from someone who had a cow that was yielding : Kalchu suggested maybe the ā gri or the um in the bottom house on the corner . |
| 27 | They went into the living-room and Lee turned off the television and they ate scrambled eggs in silence , Lee sitting on her resentment and Philippa thinking how impossible it was to talk to someone who had a blind spot , a crazy gap , a fatal flaw . |
| 28 | His argument against me had been my lack of experience — he particularly wanted someone who had a lost more PR experience . |
| 29 | Now the capable Mrs Brocklebank had become someone who had a conscience and a guilty secret . |
| 30 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |