Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 2 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 3 | No-one seeing her on the move , rushing headlong through drear fuming tunnels , would really note the missing arms and absent tail , the sealed face , the scarlet sash . |
| 4 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 6 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
| 7 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 8 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 9 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 10 | I spect someone chucked it off the bridge . |
| 11 | There 'll be someone to see you in a minute . ’ |
| 12 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 13 | Should someone attack you with a tennis racket and you calmly blast them with a shotgun , then you legally become unreasonable . |
| 14 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 15 | It 's sad , going away , but it must be nice all the same to have someone kiss you at the railway station . |
| 16 | It sounded like footsteps , followed by a sliding noise , as of someone pressing themselves against the wall and sitting down . |
| 17 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 18 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |
| 19 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 20 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 21 | On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’ |
| 22 | We employ an elderly book-keeper who is due to retire soon and I am concerned about getting someone to replace her as the books that she is keeping appear quite complicated . |
| 23 | " It seems you returned here sometime around eleven or so … and someone let you into the house . " |
| 24 | ‘ Unless someone dropped him from a helicopter , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Mrs Smith needs someone to help her with the practical side of caring , to arrange respite breaks , coordinate the nursing input and ensure that the hospital and local authority services work together with her . |
| 26 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that you 've found someone to help you with the children at last , ’ he said , sitting down on the sofa beside her . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've just hired someone to help you with the children , and I 've already laid on a cleaning lady . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That Finn , Mauno Sarin , you asked me to handle when he arrived here , said Ed had been garrotted before someone threw him into the harbour , ’ Carver commented . |
| 30 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |