Example sentences of "[indef pn] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’ |
| 2 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 3 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 4 | Someone from the Mutual Life Provident might drop in … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 6 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 7 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 8 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 9 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 10 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 11 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 12 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 13 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 14 | A week later someone from the social services came to see us . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 17 | Here they were , a tiny outpost in the Diaspora , and someone from the very heart of Jewry had come to address them , someone so important that his coming all that way proved they were important , too . |
| 18 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there was a strong tendency in some constituencies for voters to " plump " for one candidate and waste their second vote , rather than give it to someone from the opposing party . |
| 20 | It serves his purpose if someone from the Socialist Workers jeers him , for he answers with jokes , then reminds his audience that the stooges are the ugly face of socialism . |
| 21 | It is important that someone from the senior management team should exercise day-to-day oversight and responsibility for Compact activities . |
| 22 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |
| 23 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 24 | ‘ Nobody from the chief executive down begrudges a single penny spent on health , safety and the environment , ’ said HSE group manager John Dobson . |
| 25 | There was nobody from the Communist Party . |
| 26 | Erm , I 've also received information from the Region , erm with lots of events that 's coming up in the East Anglian Region , erm , just run through those quickly , er , there is a workshop on this Thursday at the Courts , erm , there is on Thursday twelfth of March there is er , somebody from the Columbian committee for human rights speaking at an open meeting , that 's the fifth er , Wednesday first of April there is er somebody called Duncan , he 's a paediatric surgeon who works part time as a volunteer at the Medical Foundation for the Care and Victims of Torture who will be speaking at St. Mary 's and St. Edmunds group , and that , that 's Bury St. Edmunds , and then the next East Anglia Regional Meeting is on Saturday May the twenty third at Bury St. Edmunds again . |
| 27 | and er where 's me Ghandi and all this and then somebody from the other side of the pool was saying it so and so , so and so , then he said couple of old |
| 28 | That uncomfortable conscience demands that somebody from the very top be indicted for the system as a whole . |
| 29 | And no I did n't er stay around to find out who was calling him , suffice to say that it was er somebody from the Italian pizzeria from down the road . |
| 30 | In the end , the dominance of the professionals can be seen by the fact that five of their number emerged with two wins out of two ( Alliss , Clark , Garner , Dawson and Guy Hunt ) compared to none from the amateur side . |