Example sentences of "someone [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 2 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 3 | Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder . |
| 4 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 5 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 6 | But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity . |
| 7 | Klein had played an important role under Wharton-Tigar , who had described him as ‘ completely reliable , someone who had performed an important service for the British ’ . |
| 8 | She was angry , for sure , but a closer look would have revealed a heaviness in the mouth , a darkness under her eyes : the face of someone who had cried a good deal recently , and had some crying yet to do . |
| 9 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 10 | But quite often grown-ups do n't know how to deal with someone who 's lost a partner |
| 11 | someone who 's done a streak from a sauna to outdoors in the South Pole , mm , that 's enough to turn your nibbles on |
| 12 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |
| 13 | You can go from being a total novice to someone who 's got a reasonably good idea by the end of one week . |
| 14 | Yeah , I 'll probably think of someone who 's got a burner . |
| 15 | It was really interesting to hear from a personal view , as well , actually , you know , I mean rainforests are to most of us just something we see on the television or we see pictures , it 's sort of a rather romantic idea , or a mythic idea , it 's lovely to talk to someone who 's got a much more overall view of the whole problem . |
| 16 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
| 17 | When you meet the likes of Mabel Brigge , you quickly recognise someone who has made a pact with Satan and acquired occult powers ! |
| 18 | This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed . |
| 19 | In addition , being termed ‘ skilled ’ often simply means that the worker is carrying out a job traditionally performed by someone who has undertaken an apprenticeship and is therefore a craft worker by training . |
| 20 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 21 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 22 | Going to ‘ day care ’ may involve too early a start for someone who has become a night owl while living alone . |
| 23 | Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions . |
| 24 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 25 | To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks . |
| 26 | To understand the importance of mobility , just think of someone who has broken a leg and has had to endure a plaster cast for several weeks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Behavioural elements can be worked into a task-centred programme , teaching someone who has lived a rather isolated life how to begin to make conversation again . |
| 29 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 30 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |