Example sentences of "someone [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 2 | Have you got someone properly qualified taking them ? |
| 3 | A ‘ cabbage ’ housewife is someone entirely immersed in domestic affairs , a colourless personality , a drab , uninteresting automaton . |
| 4 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 5 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 6 | Someone obviously decided to do something about it , and we wonder why , and who . |
| 7 | Someone obviously agreed with me eventually and it was changed to its present cream colour , which is a vast improvement . |
| 8 | Some lingering race memory remained though , some pervading conviction common to all Orientals , that this life was but one of many on the great wheel of existence and that reincarnation as someone better endowed or worse ( in his case surely worse ) awaited him . |
| 9 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 10 | It is for cases of this kind , where the evidence shows that there was active persuasion rather than compassionate assistance to someone already determined to commit suicide , that a substantial maximum penalty is thought necessary . |
| 11 | He did not acknowledge Conroy , but hurried on down with that glazed look of someone already encased in their next entrance . |
| 12 | The ghastly irony was that talking to someone outside helped clarify my feelings and work through some of the guilt I was carrying . |
| 13 | He could scarcely bear it when she cried out , ‘ I do n't know what 's wrong with me ! ’ like someone utterly lost . |
| 14 | ‘ Well then , Du Camp , ’ someone finally suggested with a little impatience , ‘ what about our dear Gustave ? ’ |
| 15 | And if someone just squirted , just |
| 16 | It 's like someone just got off at every single stop and wrote on it . |
| 17 | Someone just pulled the control rods out . |
| 18 | Someone just mentioned , yeah , it just sprang to mind , someone just mentioned er , the options on moving , if you , cos |
| 19 | Someone just mentioned , yeah , it just sprang to mind , someone just mentioned er , the options on moving , if you , cos |
| 20 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 21 | So the best source from which to obtain your ferrets has to be someone deeply committed to the animals , someone who keeps his own working and breeding stock and who from time to time may have a surplus . |
| 22 | It was no goddam accident , no goddam mechanical failure , someone deliberately unhitched that car . |
| 23 | I have also heard , anecdotally , that there is someone gainfully employed at Polygram Records to listen to new releases for the James Brown ‘ scream ’ . |
| 24 | Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door . |
| 25 | Issues of Development : I see that you and Ian ( and someone mysteriously called AS ) are planning to work on this together , which is great . |
| 26 | The Middle East is still suffering from the consequences of Jewish beastliness ( why could n't they have waited to be attacked first , like gents ? ) , including what someone euphemistically described as the ‘ re-unification ’ of Jerusalem . |
| 27 | If we define them simply , primary sources are those written at the time by someone usually connected with the event . |
| 28 | But in the end someone usually found a barrel , and scrubbed it , and poured in the raisins and the sugar and the water . |
| 29 | Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high . |
| 30 | This repeated disavowal of direct desire in favour of imitative alliance is a crucial precondition of one kind of male bonding ( what someone once called penises in parallel ) . |