Example sentences of "someone who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 2 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 3 | With such thoughts bringing peace to my troubled , weary being I sank gently into sleep , to dream of the happiness to be found among the galaxy 's wonders by someone who had just become immeasurably rich … |
| 4 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 5 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 6 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 7 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |
| 8 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 9 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 10 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |