Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If the person walks through nothing you would suddenly see the person as he walked in the light . |
| 2 | For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off . |
| 3 | If you were able to have an extra space at your table on Christmas Day for someone who might otherwise be on their own that really would be celebrating Christmas ! |
| 4 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 5 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 6 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 7 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 8 | Now I 'd often pushed my nose against the window and thought what a classy joint it looked but as someone who would rather spend £50 on a coat than a meal , the prices had come between us . |
| 9 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 10 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
| 11 | I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ? |
| 12 | We nearly died today , and I could think of nothing I 'd rather do than exult in life by taking you to bed . |
| 13 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 14 | In addition to her other problems , Kate Adie has achieved the status of someone you ca n't write about without attracting the wrath of the soft-left establishment ( aka your own Sean French and the Independent 's Reggie Nadelson ) . |
| 15 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 16 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 17 | Poor Lamont wears the haunted air of one who will forever require snookers to stay in the game . |
| 18 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 19 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 20 | And so you need to think of something which will actually keep people listening . |
| 21 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 22 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 23 | Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify . |
| 24 | It reminded Culley of something he could n't place . |
| 25 | Even so , as she followed the straight line of his back , seeing the way he moved smoothly and economically , the black hair carelessly swept back and curling at the nape of his neck , she felt a brief frisson of something she could not explain . |
| 26 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 27 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 28 | Never easy keeping track of something you ca n't even see ! ’ |
| 29 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 30 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |