Example sentences of "[indef pn] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also rather annoying if you 're on your own , a bit like watching someone eating a three-course meal when you have some dry toast and a pickled onion . |
| 2 | Someone eating an average diet and drinking unfiltered tap water is likely to ingest at least a hundred different synthetic chemicals every day — see pp 305–10 . |
| 3 | I think it must have been added later by someone using a dud typewriter ribbon . ’ |
| 4 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 5 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 6 | The tied-up human went to sleep after a while , and snored like someone sawing a thick log with a thin saw . |
| 7 | Pike 's legs went up and down like someone walking the wrong way along a travelator . |
| 8 | On the other hand , in the perspectival sense of ‘ appears ’ an object can present a certain appearance to someone occupying a certain point of view and he may not know it . |
| 9 | However , to someone facing the weak poverty trap , and again with the illustrative numbers above , this is worth only 30 per cent of £40 , i.e. £12 , because the explicit tax rate applies only to the net-of-transfer income ; i.e. . |
| 10 | For example , someone buying a French property which is the security for a French franc mortgage , who obtains rental income in French francs to cover the cost of his borrowings can sleep reasonably easily at night . |
| 11 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 12 | Harbury joined them , keen to hear what they were saying but with the excitement of someone nurturing a good story of his own . |
| 13 | He took my head between his hands carefully , gently , like someone holding a precious vase . |
| 14 | Allen studied the Neolithic revolution and became convinced that it was not a matter of someone having a bright idea and beginning to plant seeds . |
| 15 | Are you , it is difficult to cross at Lord 's , er , I mean it is as you say , it 's quite a trek from the er , from whichever dressing room you 're in , down the steps , through the Long Room , there 's always someone coming the wrong direction then . |
| 16 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 17 | I do n't look down on arts students , though I do moan about their empty timetables , but then , someone doing a German degree , no way could I do that , I have the greatest respect for them . |
| 18 | He had no successor , in the sense of someone doing an identical job . |
| 19 | Alice hid her love like someone hiding a precious jewel under their dress . |
| 20 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 21 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 22 | Someone reading the latest work on the control of food intake , for example , might be puzzled at the amount of effort that went into understanding the effects of hypothalamic lesions on eating and at the theories that were erected around those experiments . |
| 23 | Her hands slapped the wall , like someone drumming a loose rhythm on a tom-tom . |
| 24 | Yet he felt like someone entering a foreign country without knowing anything about the language . |
| 25 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 26 | Someone receiving a negative test result should still modify their behaviour to include safer sex and safer drug using practices . |
| 27 | ‘ And could you keep someone watching the front door . |
| 28 | Rather unpleasantly , there 's a pile of excrement at the bottom of one of the vents , suggestive of someone dumping the same down from upstairs ( Bardul , in fact ; see locations 55 and 58 ) . |
| 29 | This does not , however , apply to a contract made by someone visiting the Ideal Home Exhibition and making a contract at a trader 's exhibition stand . |
| 30 | A farewell party was arranged with the usual outcome of everyone remembering a good evening ( we have to tell ++ ) . |