Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 So he went home and he out about two weeks got fed up , you know , like that man you know , doing nothing so he had a scooter that needed repairing he died as he repaired the scooter !
2 I had to tell someone so I told her .
3 Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’
4 ‘ Was there someone outside you did n't want to meet ? ’ suggested Morse .
5 ‘ I knew someone once who loved growing things , like you .
6 You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you .
7 Someone else we had , who was the other one ?
8 Or someone else who believed he was God 's vicar on earth to dispense justice and retribution ?
9 Of course it 's a great challenge , but you can end up losing your own personality , because you 've got to ‘ be ’ somebody else if you 're playing these old songs , or maybe just following someone else who played on a particular album … ’
10 Those four-footed mercenaries must have met someone else who took better care of them because they never returned .
11 Someone else who had auditioned for Genesis did n't get it , but actually recommended me .
12 Delighted to find in her Venetian exile someone else who had spent the war in London , Julia sat down beside Mrs Suvarov .
13 However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died .
14 DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months .
15 Someone else who seemed to have no difficulties keeping to schedule was Michael Stein — but then , as Stephen had begun to remark rather acidly , a major part of his job involved sitting on his arse under a convenient fan listening to the sound of his own voice .
16 ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’
17 And , yes , it was made by Kemp , although some doubt could quite properly have been harboured on the matter : Ashenden knew the man , and knew his voice ; and in spite of what was probably a poorish extension-line , confirmation that the call was from Kemp had come from the telephone-operator , someone else who knew him — knew him very well , in fact .
18 Perhaps someone else who saw him more often can give a fairer description but I 've never met a Whites fan who had too many good words for him .
19 Someone else who did not want his visit known .
20 Someone else who loved him every bit as much as she did .
21 She caught herself wondering whether by someone else she meant Paul Wickham .
22 She must tackle him herself , although there was someone else she wanted to see first .
23 I read somebody once who said by the end of the short story , something had to have changed .
24 I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to .
25 Nobody else I met had any big reservations .
26 ‘ There was somebody else who heard him , sir . ’
27 you would n't allow somebody else who 'd got the sulks on because they were n't interviewed
28 Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands
29 As they pass 'd by , but nothing still they said .
30 So she said he 's got another one apparently he rung Charlie the other night and said this is Alex , can I speak to Brian .
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