Example sentences of "[pron] who have [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 2 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 3 | The content varied according to the imagined circumstances but it invariably contained the information that he was a magistrate , an exponent of the martial arts , or someone who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive and would have no hesitation in biting if attacked . |
| 4 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 5 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 6 | I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself . |
| 7 | There are some other interesting strategies recommended in the book and as someone who has always been frustrated by his inability to draw nicely I am bound to admit that the exercises suggested by Miss Edwards have brought about an unexpected improvement in my performance as a draughtsman . |
| 8 | It 's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled . |
| 9 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not believe that the legislature ever intended that the powers contained in paragraph 1 , with the sanction of criminal penalties , should or could be invoked to obtain information or documents of a potentially incriminating nature from one who had already been cautioned and charged with offences under the Act … |
| 11 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 12 | He had , after all , been an officer during the war , albeit one who had never been tried in battle . |
| 13 | ‘ On top of that , my grandfather was a particularly stalwart member of the church — one who 'd always been admired , feared even , for his rigid adherence to the faith . ’ |
| 14 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 15 | It was like being a child again , but a secure one rather than someone like her who 'd never been encouraged to cry out her troubles and fears . |
| 16 | As anyone who has ever been confined to a closed institution will know , meals are events : they are the landmarks in each repetitive day , often providing the only elements of novelty or surprise in an otherwise predictable routine . |