Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frozen with shock , momentarily , he recovered his scattered wits and shouted , ‘ Sam , stop ; someone 's jumped off the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | Someone 's talking to the other girls . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 4 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 5 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 6 | I still believe that that someone is to come by the name of David and setting up of God 's kingdom but but |
| 7 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 8 | On letters written on typewriters made from old toothbrushes and elastic bands , prisoners facing death tell their correspondents of daily life in the jail , of the regulations , of the procedure before an execution is carried out , of how their cell light shudder under the strain when someone is electrocuted in the chair . |
| 9 | It is his responsibility to decide whether the glider should be manned at the nose or tail , and whether someone is needed in the cockpit . |
| 10 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 11 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 12 | And , although they do n't realise it , nobody is listening except the barman whose only interest is in closing up . |
| 13 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 14 | One is somebody 's walking through the door to pick up information |
| 15 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 16 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 17 | None is stated in the sub-section , but it is assumed that the accused must intend to use the article in the course of or in connection with the burglary , theft or cheat , and he must know that he has the article with him . |
| 18 | This method of heating has the advantage of being more economical as no heat is wasted keeping water hot and none is lost in the pipes between the hot water cylinder and the hot tap . |
| 19 | Is not it a fact that doctors and nurses in France were on strike recently , and that in Italy patients have to ask relatives to bring in food because none is provided by the hospitals ? |
| 20 | But none is sold under the Intermagnetics name . |
| 21 | It also presumably requires chordal instruments to realize the continuo in the two vocal airs , although none is mentioned in the livret . |
| 22 | You may find you can overlook your husband 's interest in pornography , or strike a compromise whereby none is brought into the house . |
| 23 | If you are using the : COM.0 device , everything is sent to the printer and you do n't need to turn it on and off . |
| 24 | ‘ Everything is charged to the card , providing an audit trail for the businesses ’ financial and cost controllers and supplying management information , which shows whether or not the company is using its resources efficiently and staying within its budget . |
| 25 | For this building , in which everything is done in the grandest and strangest way , Mr Subirachs is making 75 pieces that trace the Passion of Christ . |
| 26 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 27 | Erm everything is done in the most accurate way we can . |
| 28 | Almost everything is built onto the motherboard — bags of memory expansion , top-notch video , Ethernet and SCSI interface . |
| 29 | But if everything is determined by the laws of science , then free will must be an illusion , and if we do n't have free will , what is the basis for our responsibility for our actions ? |
| 30 | — their uncompromising monotheism ( everything is related to the one God ) ; |