Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] have [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 2 | It 's odd how you can chat so animatedly whilst someone you 've only just met is poking your most intimate spots , is n't it ? |
| 3 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 4 | I 'm being hassled by a gorilla called Nevil — somebody I 've never even met . |
| 5 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 6 | It 's a different matter , though , when one of the protagonists is somebody we 've very much heard of and would n't mind sitting next to at dinner : a secretary of state , for example , or a dishy actor . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not something I 've ever really needed , ’ he said , trying not to make it sound assertive . |
| 8 | It 's something I 've never actually asked you about . ’ |
| 9 | It 's something I have only recently learned to do , and she seemed to appreciate it . |
| 10 | Needless to say , this new world always bore an uncanny resemblance to the one I had so recently abandoned . |
| 11 | They would know the real meaning of religious freedom , something which has never really existed throughout religious history . |
| 12 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
| 13 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 14 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 15 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 16 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 17 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 18 | All a pretty far cry from 30 Northfield Road , Hull , where a nanny was a goat , a boarding school a threat , and a bright young thing something who 'd probably just passed their eleven plus . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything we 've so far found out about Titron is weird . ’ |
| 20 | As you know , any electromagnetic disturbance ( any change in anything ) propagates with the velocity of light , something we have so far neglected to take into account . |
| 21 | So we must surely deduce from the following that those Pressmen on the panel were voting about something they had never actually experienced ! |
| 22 | She nodded and then , as steadily as she had accepted everything he had so far said , ‘ Colonel Moore will want to write his letters , of course . |
| 23 | Even the smell of the Spring flowers became apparent , something he had never even noticed before in daylight . |
| 24 | While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry . |