Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 2 | Ian was someone who 'd succeeded through his own efforts . |
| 3 | Rosalba prayed to the Madonna of the Spasm in particular , the statue in the church in Rupe who had once wept real tears in sympathy with someone who had prayed to her with a heart full of sorrow too . |
| 4 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 5 | It could only be someone who had gone for a marathon walk or a solitary picnicker who had lain down and fallen asleep . |
| 6 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 7 | Two such passages stand out in my memory : one was of a forced march during the Crimean War ; the other , an account by someone who had travelled in the west of Ireland in the years of the Great Hunger . |
| 8 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 9 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 10 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 11 | He acted like the gangster in a B movie rubbing out someone who had got in his way … |
| 12 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 13 | And someone who had come into the district recently . |
| 14 | This case raised the question of whether an assignee of a reversion on a lease could enforce the payment of rent against someone who had entered into surety covenants as a guarantee of the tenant 's obligations in the lease . |
| 15 | Yeah , you see that 's , we really need someone who 's involved to be honest |
| 16 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 17 | When I first heard about it , someone said to me , within the next ten years , one of ten of us will know of someone who 's died from it . |
| 18 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 19 | In fact , they exhibited all the satisfaction of someone who has hit upon a method for causing water to flow uphill . |
| 20 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 21 | Yet new approaches to treatment of incontinence , for example , mean that many people can learn to cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease . |
| 22 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |
| 23 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
| 24 | Is someone who has moved to Louisiana safe from the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke ? |
| 25 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 26 | The term associate publisher was also , said RH chief executive Gail Rebuck , and appropriate one ‘ for someone who has come to the top of the tree ’ . |
| 27 | Example of someone who has responded to God 's call today e.g. St. Maria Goretti , Nicky Cruz |
| 28 | Similarly ( p 61 ) , first aiders are taught to begin the rescue of someone who has collapsed from fume and gas inhalation by going away to telephone . |
| 29 | I know from my work with homeless families that such people invariably need help late at night , in the early hours of the morning or at weekends , when it is especially difficult to find a general practitioner who will respond quickly to a call to see someone who has arrived on the doorstep — in my case that means the doorstep of the YMCAs for which I worked . |
| 30 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |