Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But quite often grown-ups do n't know how to deal with someone who 's lost a partner |
| 2 | someone who 's done a streak from a sauna to outdoors in the South Pole , mm , that 's enough to turn your nibbles on |
| 3 | Yeah , I 'll probably think of someone who 's got a burner . |
| 4 | When you meet the likes of Mabel Brigge , you quickly recognise someone who has made a pact with Satan and acquired occult powers ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Going to ‘ day care ’ may involve too early a start for someone who has become a night owl while living alone . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Pick someone who wants to fight a seat to get experience . |
| 12 | to kind of just get together with someone he 's identified a person whose name I ca n't remember but he 's got a chamber orchestra |
| 13 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 14 | Erm er but some high cast Hindus , for instance , will not eat food which which has had a shadow of another person |
| 15 | you know a red flower pot plant for somebody who 's got a ruby wedding this weekend , but there 's nothing up there , not much at all , Azalea 's are sort of all off you know |
| 16 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 17 | I mean we must all know somebody who 's had a heart attack , a stroke , cancer etcetera , etcetera . |
| 18 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 19 | She describes the construction , siting and use of the Malaise , light and pitfall traps with which she has caught a total of more than 300 species of Lepidoptera , more then 90 species of hoverflies , 46 species of bees , 40 of wasps , and more than 500 species of ichneumonids , eight of which were previously unknown in |
| 20 | And again , it is a matter of luck which one comes to dominate a population . |
| 21 | In which he seeks to introduce a sense of nuance , and in which he sometimes offers three or four possible different explanations of one particular human action , without adjudicating between them . |
| 22 | At both , he received cheques with which he intends to purchase a camera , some carpets for his house and perhaps enjoy a holiday with his wife Margaret . |
| 23 | This illustrates another rare story : the seer Polyeidos shut in the tomb with Minos 's dead child Glaukos , and reviving him by means of a leaf with which he has seen a snake revive its mate which he had killed . |
| 24 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 25 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 26 | The Committee draws attention to any draft which it considers to raise a matter of political or legal importance . |
| 27 | Cecil Instruments has introduced the series 3000 UV-Vis scanning spectrophotometers which it claims have a specification and performance surpassing its main competitors , at up to half the cost . |
| 28 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 29 | EVERYONE who has played a part in the remarkable reduction in the number of deaths due to drink-driving deserves to be congratulated . |
| 30 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |