Example sentences of "[vb infin] someone [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 4 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 5 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |