Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 2 | She lay under him , loose-limbed , like someone who 'd fallen , and raised both arms above her head to grasp the bedrails . |
| 3 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 4 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 5 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 6 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 7 | The police had been called by someone who 'd spotted the flames . |
| 8 | Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder . |
| 9 | Ian was someone who 'd succeeded through his own efforts . |
| 10 | He walked out on her mother , who was stuck for years afterwards with the name of someone who 'd left her . |
| 11 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 12 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 13 | For example , a speaker might provide a summary for someone who wished to know what the intended relevance of the lecture was but who was only familiar with the subject at an elementary level . |
| 14 | I understand they believe she was shot by someone who meant to rob her , the chance victim of a killer she did n't know . |
| 15 | Kelly no longer thought of him as a steward , a central player in the racing game , but as someone who seemed to understand her better than anyone ever had , apart from her father . |
| 16 | Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ? |
| 17 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 18 | Rosalba prayed to the Madonna of the Spasm in particular , the statue in the church in Rupe who had once wept real tears in sympathy with someone who had prayed to her with a heart full of sorrow too . |
| 19 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 20 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 21 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 22 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 23 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 24 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 25 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 26 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 27 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 28 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 29 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 30 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |