Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 5 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 6 | I spect someone chucked it off the bridge . |
| 7 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It 's sad , going away , but it must be nice all the same to have someone kiss you at the railway station . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " It seems you returned here sometime around eleven or so … and someone let you into the house . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've just hired someone to help you with the children , and I 've already laid on a cleaning lady . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |
| 20 | I woke up when someone shook me by the shoulder . |
| 21 | ‘ I blame it on the fact that someone linked me with the US government , ’ he says . |
| 22 | No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody . |
| 23 | I kept waiting in dread for someone to tap you on the shoulder and say , ‘ By the way , you know Damian is chairman of Flint Investments International ! ’ ’ |
| 24 | He looked at Bernard , frowned , then glanced round sharply when he heard someone calling him from the end of the counter . |
| 25 | Later , changing into his dinner jacket in the executive cloakroom , Matthew wished he had thought to ask someone to accompany him to the chairman 's party . |
| 26 | He pulled a face and said less colloquially : ‘ I mean , he 'll be asking someone to accompany him to the police station . ’ |
| 27 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
| 28 | You see because someone took me in the car . |
| 29 | If Tom wanted her she would go to Tom , just to be with someone , to have someone to hold her in the night . |
| 30 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |