Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail . |
| 2 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 3 | ‘ If he has not , ’ Alexei observed , ‘ then I have no doubt that someone is showing them to him even now . ’ |
| 4 | If you think someone is following you on foot , check your suspicions by crossing the street , more than once if necessary . |
| 5 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 6 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 7 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 8 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 9 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 10 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 12 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 14 | As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 15 | Nobody 's asking you to be anything less . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody 's charging you with anything . ’ |
| 17 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 18 | ‘ By golly , somebody 's floored her at last ! ’ cried one of the men , grinning . |
| 19 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 20 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 21 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 22 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 23 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 24 | One is to wrap them in clingfilm and put them in the fridge until the next meal . |
| 25 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 26 | " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … " |
| 27 | ‘ No one 's invited you to this party ! ’ |
| 28 | That one 's get it like that red well that number 's moved . |
| 29 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 30 | Thus , as we saw above , the only way to help sponsor something is to sponsor it in part by contributing money oneself . |