Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 2 | Requests are often received from Doctors , Hospitals , Social Workers , or from a friend or neighbour who knows of someone who may benefit from the service . |
| 3 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 4 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 5 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 6 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 7 | What to do if you find someone who may have hypothermia see pages 13 -14 |
| 8 | Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know someone who might fit the bill . |
| 9 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 10 | Someone who might harbour a grudge against the company ? ’ |
| 11 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 12 | Zambia had no wish to be found out cold by someone who might discover what SHe was . |
| 13 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 14 | I did n't want to place myself in the hands of someone who might insist on more than I was prepared to give . |
| 15 | In other words , she is someone who might have difficulty with spelling as she grows , but could be helped now to become a competent speller . |
| 16 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 17 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 18 | Except — someone who might have watched her — followed her … |
| 19 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 20 | She had the air of a female terrorist ; someone who might take it into her head to shoot at any moment . |
| 21 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 22 | They were offering free accommodation and food to someone who would do what they described as a little gentle housework . |
| 23 | ‘ I would love to be in partnership with someone who would do all the work , and leave me 50 per cent . |
| 24 | Someone who would do what he was told … |
| 25 | The Nazis had lost him , and we had someone who would do . |
| 26 | I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person . |
| 27 | Joanna Wood , 48A Pimlico Road , SW1 , is one of those shops that sells charming fripperies , the sort of place where you can be sure of finding the very thing for someone who would prefer to buy their own toaster but who would love to be given a Limoges breakfast set or monogrammed shoe-bag . |
| 28 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 29 | my Lord , my Lord er unless I 've miss understood your Lordship it fits in the sense that if you think that unreasonably or even unfairly disclude someone from the market , you 're are excluding someone who would compete in the market , you 're taking someone out who may of had an impact on the market , may of brought prices down , offer better terms and conditions |
| 30 | From the very start , Gore was earmarked as someone who would succeed . |