Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience .
2 If , on the other hand , you are someone who restricts themselves to using commonality tactics , you may end up as a martyr .
3 They must have a a lead guitarist or somebody who fancies themselves as a lead
4 Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself .
5 A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house .
6 And , when they were , the was panda was about to leave , you know , he 's all ready and the prostitute thought well well he ca n't realise so she got th , her dictionary out and looked up pand , looked for prostitute one who avails herself for money .
7 Or likewise an introvert does n't necessarily mean it 's a person who does n't talk to anybody who keeps themselves to themselves and is a miserable , it 's not like that at all .
8 While the contextual method is well-suited to the exploration of the infinite subtlety and particularity of word-meanings , it is nonetheless more particularly the aim of this book to seek out and highlight anything which lends itself to generalisation , even of a limited sort , any tendency towards structure , system and recurrence , in the domain of word-meaning .
9 But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire .
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