Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 2 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 3 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 4 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 5 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 6 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 7 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 8 | It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me . |
| 9 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 10 | Then she said , ‘ The woman you knew , the one who ran this place , you wo n't find her . ’ |
| 11 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 12 | One who attended these meetings described Hinchley as ‘ an enthusiast , obviously highly strung , quick in thought and rapid in speech , as though his overfilled brain could scarcely get rid of the thoughts and ideas quickly enough — sensitive to a hostile audience but quick to respond to a friendly one ’ . |
| 13 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 14 | No one who played that day will ever forget it . |
| 15 | No one who witnessed these debates has ever suggested that Lewis played fair . |
| 16 | The one who left this week ? ’ |
| 17 | MaliVai ( ‘ call me Mal ’ ) , Washington , out of Glen Cove , a fashionable suburb of New York , is one who took that decision to turn pro back in 1989 . |
| 18 | The last was probably his strongest card , and no one who heard this broadcast on May 28th could doubt that it was the one about which he cared the most . |
| 19 | So er she was the one who pointed that fact to me . |
| 20 | In this room , the marshal was the only one who gave any indication that she valued Susan above the worth of her Public Service . |
| 21 | In this way , two of the RAF 's great leaders , the one who saved this country from invasion in 1940 and the other who paved the way to victory in 1945 will be rightly commemorated . |
| 22 | Now considering there was at least 1,000 miles of sand between Baghdad and Damascus , everybody who heard this remark had hysterics , everybody except for the stupid young officer who went off to think about this . |
| 23 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 24 | ‘ We would ask anyone who saw these men to come forward . ’ |
| 25 | She had never met anyone who had such ability to make anger surge and fire within . |
| 26 | ‘ Virtually anyone who had some flannels was in contention for a first-team place as Eric Hollies , Tom Dollery , Ken Taylor , Bill Fantham and myself were the only prewar survivors . |
| 27 | Indeed , anyone who had any business with the law in London knew Fitzosbert 's fearsome reputation . |
| 28 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 29 | Anyone who tried this line of argument would be taken to task by the pollsters , who have a commercial interest in resisting such reasoning . |