Example sentences of "someone who had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 2 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 3 | Turning the pages together , they read what Luce Weston had written , getting a clear picture of someone who had loved more than she 'd hated , and given more than she 'd taken . |
| 4 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 5 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 6 | The office staff and the surgeons used the list as a pool of work they would dip into — indeed a surgeon might deliberately choose a recent addition to the list over someone who had waited far longer on the grounds of greater urgency … |
| 7 | ‘ Imagine someone who had given up teaching five years ago trying to get back into the profession now . |
| 8 | He wanted someone who had got away with it . |
| 9 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 10 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |