Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was I who sent old Surrey north to crush James at Flodden . ’ |
| 2 | I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | As someone who likes musical comedies to be comedies , the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible . |
| 8 | It is in the initial anticipation that the middle class will show respect that the bias lies , for where this deference is lacking , even from someone who appears middle class , a variant of the gouger typification comes into force . |
| 9 | Someone who gave good face on film . |
| 10 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 11 | This much is perhaps to be expected from someone who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work . |
| 12 | What can family members and others do to help someone who has addictive diseases ? |
| 13 | No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court . |
| 14 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 15 | Silvio is a very complex and tormented personality , someone who has great difficulty in coming to terms with the demands of life . |
| 16 | You can start to regard yourself as someone who has great potential for change and self-fulfilment . |
| 17 | While I have friends who would probably help me a great deal , there is no legal arrangement to deal with someone who has declining health because of AIDS . |
| 18 | At the youngest age , your friend may be the winner of a running race or someone who has beautiful hair ! |
| 19 | I am someone who needs other people all the time |
| 20 | All one may own are such rights as the law confers upon someone who holds confidential information . |
| 21 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 22 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 23 | Nobody who seeks political asylum does it lightly . |
| 24 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 25 | How many women want to sit down at two o'clock and give an hour and a half of their attention to a play of any sort whatsoever , let alone one about the life of somebody who collects Irish folk ballads ? |
| 26 | They do n't actually make customers queue outside in chilly Mayfair , but the greeting system obliges everyone who lacks star quality to stand , cap in hand , under the supercilious gaze of a giggle of girls who fiddle ineffectually with placement lists on a trolley . |
| 27 | This approach has the advantage of providing detailed data about the nature and severity of illness in society , but it suffers from the obvious drawback that not everyone who is ill seeks or receives medical treatment and not everyone who seeks medical treatment is necessarily ill . |
| 28 | Everyone who has regular dealings with Brussels needs at least one such directory . |
| 29 | Virtually everyone who pays national insurance contributions is now entitled to acquire a personal pension . |
| 30 | Few alternative therapies are available on the NHS , so you may have to find a practitioner yourself — and not everyone who practises complementary medicine is adequately trained . |