Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 2 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 3 | So it is a question of not allowing someone who commits a summary offence to ‘ escape liability ’ for an indictable offence . |
| 4 | ‘ An actor is someone who plays a role , tells a story , ’ he explains , ‘ and a star is someone who 's always acting in front of everybody . |
| 5 | ‘ Murder , ’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . |
| 6 | She knew someone who knew a woman . |
| 7 | Maybe he/she is right ; often he/she is not and may recruit someone who becomes a liability . |
| 8 | The authors state that a baseline blood sample may be requested from someone who sustains a needlestick injury , whereas a baseline blood sample should always be taken after occupational exposure . |
| 9 | The term ‘ sir ’ retains respect while ‘ madam ’ refers to someone who keeps a brothel . |
| 10 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 11 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 12 | Nara was sent to get a bowl of milk from someone who had a cow that was yielding : Kalchu suggested maybe the ā gri or the um in the bottom house on the corner . |
| 13 | They went into the living-room and Lee turned off the television and they ate scrambled eggs in silence , Lee sitting on her resentment and Philippa thinking how impossible it was to talk to someone who had a blind spot , a crazy gap , a fatal flaw . |
| 14 | His argument against me had been my lack of experience — he particularly wanted someone who had a lost more PR experience . |
| 15 | Now the capable Mrs Brocklebank had become someone who had a conscience and a guilty secret . |
| 16 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone who had a baby here , twenty years ago , ’ said Juliet . |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 19 | And it was composed either only a short time after those events by someone who played a role in them , or more probably by someone with direct access to the testimony of an eyewitness . |
| 20 | I think you have me confused with someone who gives a shit . ’ |
| 21 | As you can see , for every problem or bad habit , there is usually someone who knows a foolproof solution . |
| 22 | However , at heart he 's still a guitar playing singer , and someone who knows a thing or two about Vox AC30s … |
| 23 | ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ? |
| 24 | I was talking to someone who knows a Leeds solicitor who is involved with the club and he was allegedly letting this colleague in on some inside info . |
| 25 | Erm to someone who knows a little bit about maths , |
| 26 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |
| 27 | He would plead that the plugs had been planted by someone who bore a grudge against him , and the story would be quickly put round the plant that it was the foreman himself who had fixed it , to settle an old score . |
| 28 | As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite . |
| 29 | This was another characteristic that he had : he often talked about himself as if he had custody of someone who needed a lot of upbringing . |
| 30 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |