Example sentences of "someone who [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole .
2 Someone who turns up at an occasion which is known to be an ordeal for him communicates information whether he wishes to or not .
3 Then he quite literally bumps into someone who turns out to be a very good friend indeed .
4 By continually signalling attentiveness and responsiveness to the signals of the other — it is infuriating to talk to someone who stares out of the window all the time .
5 The occasional encounter with someone who seemed out of place was a relief .
6 Someone who gets off on slapping people around , ’ SHe 'd answered carelessly .
7 Are you going to tell me that it was someone who came back on the train from London who gave you the key ? ’
8 It is understandable for our staff in the offices to look at such claims in a different way from that of someone who comes in off the street .
9 If you 're looking at her and she 's battered about the face and all that then initially it appears more credible than someone who comes in with no visible signs of injury .
10 Someone who comes in by the day would suit me admirably . ’
11 ‘ There 's a special word in Russian for someone who moves in on a household indefinitely and has the right to complain about the arrangements , ’ he said , ‘ and I 'm it . ’
12 She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present .
13 ‘ Knocked out by someone who broke in to her office . ’
14 ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly .
15 The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth
16 We had an annual swimming display at school , and this always ended with someone pretending to fall in accidentally , fully clothed , and being rescued by someone who dived in from the side , again fully clothed .
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