Example sentences of "someone who [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 2 | She lay under him , loose-limbed , like someone who 'd fallen , and raised both arms above her head to grasp the bedrails . |
| 3 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 4 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 5 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 6 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 7 | The police had been called by someone who 'd spotted the flames . |
| 8 | Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder . |
| 9 | Ian was someone who 'd succeeded through his own efforts . |
| 10 | He walked out on her mother , who was stuck for years afterwards with the name of someone who 'd left her . |
| 11 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 12 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 13 | For example , a speaker might provide a summary for someone who wished to know what the intended relevance of the lecture was but who was only familiar with the subject at an elementary level . |
| 14 | She straightened , stretching her neck as far as it would go , meeting his eyes , if not levelly , at least unwaveringly , as he answered , ‘ A romantic go-between is someone who helps set up romantic meetings . |
| 15 | Once again , the male homosexual is someone who refuses to risk himself in relation to the other , but now the risk is not in relation to the opposite sex ( as in Scruton and Mailer ) , but to the same sex as rival . |
| 16 | That explanation distinguishes integrity from the perverse consistency of someone who refuses to rescue some prisoners because he can not save all . |
| 17 | A casual drug user has an ice cream habit and a champ is someone who refuses to reveal their supplier . |
| 18 | I An insult is perceived by someone who feels insulted . |
| 19 | I understand they believe she was shot by someone who meant to rob her , the chance victim of a killer she did n't know . |
| 20 | Kelly no longer thought of him as a steward , a central player in the racing game , but as someone who seemed to understand her better than anyone ever had , apart from her father . |
| 21 | It was very good to have someone like that — someone who keeps pushing you and telling you that you can do it and not to be shy . ’ |
| 22 | Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ? |
| 23 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 24 | If you feel you deserve a bit of pampering or if you know someone who does please write to : Make-Over Features , EADT , 30 Lower Brook Street , Ipswich IP4 1AN , enclosing a recent photo and your clothes size . |
| 25 | Rosalba prayed to the Madonna of the Spasm in particular , the statue in the church in Rupe who had once wept real tears in sympathy with someone who had prayed to her with a heart full of sorrow too . |
| 26 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 27 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 28 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 29 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 30 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |