Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not I who resist the system , as Kierkegaard thought ; it is the other . |
| 2 | Your ideas are rather undeveloped and ignorant and , after all , it was I who saw the solicitor . |
| 3 | Remember it was I who ground the flour for your birthday cake ! " |
| 4 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 5 | But Altman 's biggest victims , you sense , are ordinary Joes like you and I who feed the arrogance of these dreamworld fat cats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Maybe I can cite Page because he was someone who understood the studio so well . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But someone who asked the Adjutant , ‘ How do you know ? ’ would either be a stranger to the army , or be making a joke . |
| 11 | There 's Jane Eyre where the wedding is interrupted by someone who says the groom is already married . |
| 12 | Take the word ‘ loyal ’ and consider someone who deplores the kind of character it indicates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 15 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Voicing of complaints can be done by someone who assumes the status of acting as collective mouthpiece . |
| 18 | In the footballing faternity , Wilko is highly regarded as someone who reads the game well . |
| 19 | If your dog shows a marked degree of aggression with which you can not cope , you must get it to someone who understands the breed and can help . |
| 20 | If problems are anticipated a statement from someone who witnessed the birth is good evidence . |
| 21 | Someone who sees the dance that Rainbow is doing , and wants to join her . |
| 22 | Steven Isserlis has said that he needs ‘ a safety net not to have to worry whether I 've ever played this or that bar properly during the session and also someone who knows the kind of musical personality I am and whether I have covered a particular stretch of music the way I would want . |
| 23 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 24 | We all need someone who knows the secret of our hearts ’ . |
| 25 | He says it 's part of the staff 's contract that they work different shift from time to time — at times of crisis or if someone is sick we have to ask someone who knows the job to cover . |
| 26 | When an act becomes more established , or if it is a new band with good management and someone who knows the business , the agent may make a 10 per cent deal — the standard commission rate . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'm writing a report for someone who knows the background , the jargon and the problem . |
| 28 | For instance , we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being someone who knows the meaning of the word bank . |
| 29 | In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time . |
| 30 | The RYA produces a booklet called ‘ Clubs for Newcomers ’ ( £1.50 from the RYA ) which lists over 400 clubs around the country which are open to new membership with a contact name of someone who knows the club well and could show you around . |