Example sentences of "[indef pn] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look like someone 's grandmother gone wrong ! ’ |
| 2 | However , it does not take somebody with a great imagination to think of using someone 's invention to base two of the hatter 's obsessions upon . |
| 3 | I ca n't begin to try to explain what is in someone 's mind to do such a thing . |
| 4 | somebody 's drink going cold |
| 5 | ‘ If what happened tonight was n't somebody 's finger pushin' that glass . ’ |
| 6 | once you have mailed out your tapes , it becomes somebody 's job to phone all of these people everyday until you make contact and you get some feedback . |
| 7 | ‘ If somebody 's mother-in-law fell sick , we would take care of her too , ’ says Mr Galliani . |
| 8 | It is in nobody 's interest to see eastern Europe become a black market for laundering the world 's money . ’ |
| 9 | Hence they feel that it is in everyone 's interest to have full and open dialogues . |
| 10 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 11 | Thus , roughly speaking , one 's ability to make definite predictions is halved . |
| 12 | Such a consent is binding , and is not trivial as it reinforces one 's motivation to respect that government 's authority . |
| 13 | Instead of providing the British people with more incentives to work hard and succeed , the Labour Government preferred to increase taxes , so that it was hardly worth one 's while to produce more wealth . |
| 14 | And a most disturbing one at that ; too disturbing by a long chalk to display on one 's sideboard to embarrass one s guests . |
| 15 | One of the boys in question leaned forward and drawled in an upper-hive accent , ‘ Shame , having to hack off one 's pinkie to say sorry to one 's boss for a blunder . |
| 16 | Now I know the love for a man and the love for one 's child are two totally different things , but it 's not always simple for the father of one 's child to understand that . |
| 17 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 18 | In the long-term it is one 's capacity to make open and honest relationships , outside the Fellowships as well as within , that makes the real difference to the quality of life and recovery . |
| 19 | One 's inability to make better speed on a scrambling descent seems as paradoxical as it is frustrating . |
| 20 | Yet all amatory action with one 's self induces sexual ailments . |
| 21 | Doing a wheelie on one 's nose sounds painful — but not when it 's done like this . |
| 22 | The threat of removal elsewhere , if one 's condition gets worse , is one that hangs over the heads of vulnerable elderly people in both private and local authority residential homes in many cases . |
| 23 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |
| 24 | Conversely , the focus to please one 's partner brings personal pleasure proportionate with achieving the goal . |
| 25 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 26 | From Carson to Paisley one finds the argument that it is legitimate to fight to regain one 's fundamental freedom if the sovereign with whom one has covenanted one 's allegiance betrays that allegiance and conducts one into slavery . |
| 27 | When there is more than one right act it is one 's duty to do one of them , though not one in particular . |
| 28 | It is not possible to speak without one 's speech having some degree or type of pitch range , loudness , speed and voice quality ( with the possible exception that pitch factors are largely lost in whispered speech ) . |
| 29 | At the very least one owes it to one 's family to do this , as well as to oneself and even one 's current employer . |
| 30 | A year or two in France and Italy was not compatible with the efficient running of the new industries , but two or three weeks in the Lakes , Scotland or North Wales showed the neighbours that one 's family had gentle interests . |