Example sentences of "[indef pn] who have [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 2 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 3 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 4 | Show me a frowning British woman on a beach , and I 'll show someone who 's just spotted a mid-thigh clump the wax did n't reach . |
| 5 | Insurers say a non-smoker is someone who has not puffed the weed for 12 months and does n't plan smoking again . |
| 6 | These are , of course , useful if you want to send a compressed file to someone who has not got the same compression program , so can not de-compress the file at the other end . |
| 7 | Margaret closed the briefcase with a click , like someone who has just completed a sale . |
| 8 | For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire . |
| 9 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 10 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 11 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 12 | And Newton himself exudes the confidence of someone who has just had a shave and put on a fresh shirt . |
| 13 | If the owner wishes to bring a claim against someone who has wrongfully sold the owner 's goods , his claim will again be for conversion . |
| 14 | Philosophical question : can you actually fill in for someone who has never done the job ? |
| 15 | For someone who has never had a panic attack it may be difficult to fully empathize with the client , but it may help if you were to consider the following scenario . |
| 16 | As someone who has recently paid an enormously increased premium , I think that that would be an excellent idea . |
| 17 | Nobody who has ever taken the trouble to visit General Gouraud 's observation post on a cold , dank winter 's day , could ever escape the hell-hole ambiance of such a deathly place which seems to reach out over the decades of time to shame and sicken the human race . |
| 18 | No it 's got to be somebody who has n't had a go , otherwise the system falls down , does n't it . |
| 19 | Somebody who has just had a trick played on them by Anancy ? |
| 20 | It is a very long novel ; on the other hand it seems to be one of the best novels ever written , and I would strongly recommend somebody who has perhaps read a little George Eliot to go on to that . |
| 21 | Families of those receiving the award were also invited , as was everyone who had previously joined the ‘ quarter century club . ’ |
| 22 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 23 | Yeremi knew the catechism of the Imperial Cult by heart ; and that was the rock of his faith — a faith to the effect that far beyond Trazior hive , and far beyond Necromunda and its bilious sun , was one who watched divinely from afar , one who had already rescued the galaxy from terrible strife , and whose incomprehensible mind surveyed and sifted , ever vigilant , the terrible redemptory Godfather of All . |
| 24 | But I was the only one who had n't taken the blues . |
| 25 | However , I did not anticipate it would be quite so moving to one who had never met the man himself . |
| 26 | One who 'd probably mowed the nurses down in his student days , too , she thought with a flash of insight . |
| 27 | He 's the one who 's just had a breakdown . |
| 28 | Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet . |
| 29 | Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle . |
| 30 | This instrument must be familiar to every one who has ever heard a military band . |