Example sentences of "someone [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For lenders there is clearly a more desirable proposition in a public house that has a higher beverages or ‘ wet ’ side than a ‘ dry ’ side , because if someone wants to purchase a pub with a high ‘ dry ’ side , and they do not have much catering experience , then their turnover could diminish rapidly . |
| 2 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |
| 3 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 4 | If someone wants to buy a printer or 20 diskettes from us it would be pointless to tell them they 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 5 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 6 | If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him . |
| 7 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 8 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 9 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 10 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 11 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
| 12 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 13 | But the pink-footed looks as if someone has pushed a tennis ball up into the top of a short sock : round head , short neck , with a small beak stuck on . |
| 14 | If , as frequently occurs , unpleasant symptoms arise as the result of the stress — the heart races , the stomach feels as though someone has tied a knot in it — we become so aware of these sensations that we are even less able to function well . |
| 15 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 16 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 17 | If someone has had an accident in their home , fallen and injured themselves or been taken ill , they may not be able to attract the attention of neighbours , passers-by or people who call at the door . |
| 18 | It is rather disingenuous of the Minister to extrapolate the logic that , because someone has described a situation , that means that he necessarily agrees with it . |
| 19 | The flesh of his forehead looked like pastry after someone has drawn a fork across it . |
| 20 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 21 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 22 | Someone tried to organise a concert party , and there was a great deal of enthusiasm for this for a short time . |
| 23 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 24 | Someone described seeing a couple having tea in a restaurant with an elderly parent . |
| 25 | Erm now if someone says draw a graph of this , Y equals square root of X. Well let's say this way . |
| 26 | If a fuze went out there was always someone prepared to force a metal pricker down through the packing into the dynamite in the hope of inserting a fresh capped fuze , even though inadvertently piercing the thin copper detonator might mean death or mutilation . |
| 27 | Pascoe closed himself off from the knowledge , like someone turning to face a wall . |
| 28 | Hence , someone wishing to finance a catering enterprise may have to guarantee the loan by using their own personal assets , e.g. their house , as security . |
| 29 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 30 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |