Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked out on her mother , who was stuck for years afterwards with the name of someone who 'd left her . |
| 2 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 9 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 10 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 11 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 12 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 13 | The names of the people are arbitrary labels , but the point of the sentence can not be grasped unless it is realized that the reason for the questioning was to find out what had happened from someone who had seen it . |
| 14 | He surveyed the encompassing scene in the cool , calm and collected manner of someone who had seen it all before . |
| 15 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 16 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 17 | ‘ By ill luck found someone who had known her . ’ |
| 18 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 19 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |
| 20 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 21 | Thus , if O were not the owner but had , for example stolen the car ( or bought it from someone who had stolen it ) then the true owner ( i. e. from whom the car was stolen ) will still have good title ( i. e. unless one of the other exceptions to the nemo dat principle applies ) . |
| 22 | Victoria says I have ‘ blind spots , quite amazing blind spots about the real world for someone who likes to think he is so aware ’ . |
| 23 | You do n't forget someone who threatens to kill you . |
| 24 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 25 | Speaking after the meeting to someone who did attend it , I was told that the arkies ' interference with the rally last year comprised bluff and empty threats ! |
| 26 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 27 | If a case clearly invites you to redesign a kitchen because the existing layout does n't conform to the food hygiene regulations and you miss this , then obviously you should n't get as many marks as someone who has spotted it . |
| 28 | And so this woman , she did n't preach a sermon , but she does give her a testament , she goes back and she gets the folk in the village , and she says , come see someone , meet someone , let me introduce you to someone who has told me everything that I have ever done ! |
| 29 | ‘ At worst , it can lead to someone who has taken it stopping breathing , ’ said Mr Wardle . |
| 30 | So now you have three weapons when standing face to face with someone who wants to hurt you : physical power , surprise and deception . |