Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 2 | I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 4 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 5 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 6 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 7 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 8 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 9 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 10 | ANYONE can make a mistake , so it would be unfair , would n't it , to poke fun at someone who wrote Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea ( instead of Protection of the Sea ) . |
| 11 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 12 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 13 | Someone who gave good face on film . |
| 14 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 15 | This much is perhaps to be expected from someone who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work . |
| 16 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 17 | Someone he bought red roses for ? |
| 18 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 19 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 20 | It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me . |
| 21 | ‘ I promise you , sir , that we shall interview everyone you saw this afternoon . |
| 22 | I told you everything I did that afternoon but I did n't bother to mention I fell asleep . |
| 23 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 24 | It was the only one I knew this morning like , so fifty miles an hour he said to me He said to me , he said to me turn left at the roundabout there was only one that was marked on the floor , only one an actual erm roundabout with concrete and I drove straight over it |
| 25 | The one I saw this week at Hillier 's Arboretum , Ampfield , near Winchester , was already on the turn , with leaves orange and scarlet amidst clusters of large red haws , much bigger than those you find on wild hawthorns . |
| 26 | The one I had last year is too small — 'cos I 've grown bigger . |
| 27 | But I I 'm wearing them all a little bit longer , except in the the winter cos I ca n't ca n't alter my coat I have got a longer summer coat to wear but the the one I had last year erm all the skirt showed beneath , I could n't walk about like that . |
| 28 | That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn . |
| 29 | Yeah , well the one I got , I go , one I got five pound off she lives alone and she 's in that flat and everything . |
| 30 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |