Example sentences of "someone [Wh pn] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Someone who manages to read in a noisy , crowded room may inadvertently communicate evidence as to his enviable powers of concentration .
2 Yeah , you see that 's , we really need someone who 's involved to be honest
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow .
6 If you are someone who finds talking about sex or AIDS difficult or embarrassing , you may find yourself concentrating on the facts , rather than on feelings .
7 There is a Latin maxim ignorantia juris non excusat , and , although these words are variously translated and variously applied in our law , they are remarkably applicable to someone who chooses to act in a challenging way towards a policeman on the street . ’
8 He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ .
9 In fact , they exhibited all the satisfaction of someone who has hit upon a method for causing water to flow uphill .
10 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 .
11 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cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 Is someone who has moved to Louisiana safe from the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke ?
15 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 .
16 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 ’ .
17 Example of someone who has responded to God 's call today e.g. St. Maria Goretti , Nicky Cruz
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Instead of letting the accounts department handle it , we 've given the job to someone who enjoys dealing with people .
21 We need someone who enjoys working with figures and accounts , is prepared to give time to Executive and Finance meetings , and can liaise with the Society 's Officers .
22 ‘ I 've brought someone who wants to talk to you .
23 A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed !
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