Example sentences of "[subord] someone [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She looks like someone has punched her in the mouth , ’ said one pal . |
| 2 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 3 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 4 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 5 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 6 | Marie felt her legs give way beneath her , she sat down on the edge of the pavement , feet in the gutter , doubled-up , sick and winded as if someone had punched her in the stomach . |
| 7 | It 's there on my record and sometimes I wake in the night and think what would happen to me if someone decided to do something about it . ’ |
| 8 | If someone tries to harm you in London , it will be hard to stop him or catch him afterwards . |
| 9 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
| 10 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
| 11 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 12 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
| 13 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 14 | car , when someone tries to describe it to you . |