Example sentences of "someone [pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always include someone else — someone I ca n't remember . ’ |
| 2 | A long conversation followed with someone I could not see . |
| 3 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 4 | Someone I could n't see . |
| 5 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 6 | ‘ She may be of age , but I wo n't allow her to marry someone who ca n't provide for her ! ’ |
| 7 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 8 | To you I 'm just someone who ca n't be left in your house alone . ’ |
| 9 | For Latin America it 's very difficult , as you need someone who wo n't bring up any of the bad guys the US has supported and still does support there when the topic is those dreaded Sandinistas again . |
| 10 | ‘ I know what you need , Clare : someone you know and trust , someone who wo n't make you feel anxious . |
| 11 | And someone who wo n't overspend his budget . |
| 12 | It had to be someone who would not be recognised easily by undercover men familiar with Ulster . |
| 13 | He has no illusions about why he was chosen for the Fogg job : ‘ They thought I was someone who would n't mind the suffering involved — and someone who was cheap . |
| 14 | This was life : going to bet with a man twice as old as yourself who was married to someone who would n't divorce him . |
| 15 | It must be carried by someone who could not be suspected . |
| 16 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 17 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 18 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 19 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 20 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 21 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 22 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
| 23 | Evidently he thought that a person can quite properly use the word ‘ here ’ without knowing , either by acquaintance or description , some thing which is what the word means , but that the word ‘ I ’ is different , and therefore that someone who can not , however hard he introspects , discover some thing which is what the word means , should not use it . |
| 24 | By ‘ personal care ’ I mean nursing someone who can not fully look after themselves and/or performing domestic tasks which they are unable to undertake . |
| 25 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 26 | Try out each of your jokes on someone who will not be at the wedding to see if it sounds funny the way you tell it . |
| 27 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 28 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 29 | Dismissing the doctor who had brought Eileen and all her brothers and sisters into the world as someone she would n't have to whelp her mangy bitch . |
| 30 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |