Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 2 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 3 | The police had been called by someone who 'd spotted the flames . |
| 4 | Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder . |
| 5 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 6 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 7 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 8 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 9 | But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity . |
| 10 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 11 | We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ . |
| 12 | Klein had played an important role under Wharton-Tigar , who had described him as ‘ completely reliable , someone who had performed an important service for the British ’ . |
| 13 | In discussing identity formation at adolescence , Erikson posits that it is partly ‘ dependent on the process by which a society ( often through subsocieties ) identifies the young individual , recognising him as someone who had to become the way he is and who , being the way he is , is taken for granted . |
| 14 | She was angry , for sure , but a closer look would have revealed a heaviness in the mouth , a darkness under her eyes : the face of someone who had cried a good deal recently , and had some crying yet to do . |
| 15 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 16 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 17 | Thus someone who found learning a foreign language extremely difficult might struggle to pass grade 1 spoken French by the time he was 16 . |
| 18 | The connecting trench was constantly full of water now , and because the firing-step was in danger of crumbling there was no alternative for someone who wanted to visit the other wheel but to wade through water and mud . |
| 19 | Being in a gallery as a secretary , I eventually met someone who wanted to start a gallery with me . |
| 20 | It is characteristic of the popular movement in the mid-seventeenth century that someone who helped to formulate an effective compromise on a crucial and contentious constitutional issue should remain so obscure a figure . |
| 21 | It was n't the look of somebody who had won the jackpot but somebody who looked spiritually fulfilled as well . ’ |
| 22 | And yet Maurice appeared to be almost proud , because Harry was not a customer , but somebody who had demanded a favour and given nothing in return . |
| 23 | Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection , somebody , moreover , who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling . |
| 24 | The only other places somebody who 'd joined the Army at sixteen would know were Army places . |
| 25 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 26 | Phone call from somebody who wanted to book the hall , erm children 's party , and erm this person kept on saying are you the man that does the , that sort of lets out the hall |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone who enrolled got a number . |
| 28 | At all times , almost everyone who had seen a poll noticed that the Conservatives were top , but perceptions of which party was in second place varied sharply . |
| 29 | Their luck had been good , for everyone who had left the warren was still alive . |
| 30 | He said he had written to everyone who had included an address , explaining that the problem in the dress circle was due to the original structure of the theatre . |