Example sentences of "[verb] someone who [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 2 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 4 | Freud was a rationalist , impatient with religion , and Jung someone who thought the non-rational and religious areas of human experience held something of worth for modern man . |
| 5 | Now the capable Mrs Brocklebank had become someone who had a conscience and a guilty secret . |
| 6 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The appraisers were two , three or four local men appointed by the executors ; usually they were friends and neighbours ( some of whom were illiterate ) , but they often included someone who had the reputation of knowing how to do the job . |
| 9 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 10 | She knew someone who knew a woman . |
| 11 | The seduction that had followed had been both a homage and a revenge ; an attempt to control someone who exercised an authority over him that defied analysis . |
| 12 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |
| 13 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 14 | His argument against me had been my lack of experience — he particularly wanted someone who had a lost more PR experience . |