Example sentences of "[pron] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these fluctuations in his status I remember him fondly on his infrequent leaves as someone with a great sense of fun . |
| 2 | Recognizing his potential ability — not as a dancer , but someone with a great deal to offer to theatre — I obtained permission from the Senate and the Dean of the Faculty of Music ( of which the ballet school was a part ) for John to be a registered student on the three-year Ballet Certificate course . |
| 3 | A house that cost £5500 to build typically cost a council tenant £3.18 a week , a mortgage payer £6.37 a week and someone with a private landlord £10.09 a week . |
| 4 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 5 | Ideally , someone with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able . |
| 6 | Someone with a draughty door would love Peter Rabbit to stop the wind whistling in . |
| 7 | Someone with a vested interest in training or a personal commitment to it |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 9 | For someone with a good reading knowledge of German and Anglo-Saxon , the coguate tongue of Norse offered few difficulties . |
| 10 | They can help companies by providing someone with a good knowledge of the latest techniques in management and business . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd need someone with a good deal of local knowledge to pull that off . ’ |
| 12 | But Jock has seen that other ‘ careers ’ are available to someone with a good command of himself . |
| 13 | Judge William Crowford told Riley : ‘ It 's a matter of great regret that I must pass a prison sentence on someone with a good record like yourself . ’ |
| 14 | You get someone with a sharp knife |
| 15 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 16 | Section 3(2) protects an innocent purchaser from an accusation of theft when , having bought in good faith from someone with a defective title , he later treats the property as his own . |
| 17 | Someone with a genuine concern for the wounded of World War One , the miners of South Wales , the unemployed , for , and homeless in general . |
| 18 | At first the hotel had been unwilling to employ someone with a young daughter . |
| 19 | Earlier , he had been reunited with someone with a substantial claim to fame . |
| 20 | We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided . |
| 21 | ‘ With your good-looking Drew ? ’ asked someone with a friendly laugh . |
| 22 | Lynda always accepted the importance of having someone with a strong concept controlling the design outflow and never found Laura 's unspoken guidelines stultifying . |
| 23 | If that is true , why does someone with a lavish lifestyle have a right to have that maintained while families who have defaulted on £20,000 mortgages have their homes repossessed ? |
| 24 | A void title on the other hand is no title at all and an innocent purchaser who buys from someone with a void title can derive no benefit from section 23 ( although , of course , he might acquire good title by virtue of some other exception to the ‘ nemo dat ’ principle ) . |
| 25 | He joined the Puffin Bookshop in the summer of 1985 and quickly established himself as someone with a deep interest in books for children , especially for the very young , and won the hearts of customers , fellow members of staff and publishers visiting the shop , not to mention the many authors and illustrators who gave their time freely for the events and signings at the bookshop . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 27 | I have decided to step down to allow someone with a fresh approach to take charge in the hope that Irish rugby may achieve the success it needs . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now , ’ said Picon a few years ago , ‘ when you read an obituary of someone with a Jewish name you know you have lost another member of the audience . ’ |
| 29 | Then , one fine day , at one of these parties , someone with a big nose and a wide pinstripe will stumble up to you , notice your tie , and say : ‘ Wair-you-a' schoo' ? ’ |
| 30 | Much as he admired schoolgirls , flouting the law was too much of a risk for someone with a public image . |