Example sentences of "[that] [adv] someone " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can . |
| 2 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 3 | My dad gave him the sort of look that only someone declared clinically dead can manage . |
| 4 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 5 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 6 | He might have known that even someone as sensible as Miss van Wiliamsburgh would try to make a play of this sort . |
| 7 | Mr Jackson says that maybe someone in the house can look after him . |