Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
| 2 | There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’ |
| 3 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We came to meet someone who has n't turned up . |
| 5 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 6 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 7 | May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) . |
| 8 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 9 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 10 | She says that her life now is better than the life she could have spent with someone she had never met before . |
| 11 | A crazy man , someone she had never seen before , took a shot at her from a rooftop . |
| 12 | Is there someone he 's never got over ? |
| 13 | Somebody I 'd never seen before said hello and |
| 14 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 15 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 16 | would you please make sure that all through these practices that you deal with different people all the time cos in the exam and for real afterwards you 'll have to bandage all different shape people and if you just get , work in pairs you do n't get that sort of practice , by all means start of with somebody next door to you but each time you do one go across the room and find somebody you have n't done before . |
| 17 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 18 | ‘ After all , there 's nothing you have n't seen before . ’ |
| 19 | It 's only basic human biology — nothing you have n't seen before . ’ |
| 20 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 21 | It was like nothing she 'd ever experienced before : a sensuous hedonistic time of utter physical pleasure . |
| 22 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before . |
| 23 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
| 24 | She looked at Mr Browning , startled , and he drew a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood away tenderly , saying , ‘ She tells me it is nothing , nothing she has not had before . ’ |
| 25 | Hello , , ah , I bet it 's something I 've just written down , is n't it ? |
| 26 | Unless of course , you 're a dab hand at water divining — something I 've not attempted yet ! |
| 27 | Forcing me to make that dreadful decision when we were first married — to either go abroad with him , or look after my father — was something I 've always found terribly hard to forgive . |
| 28 | If I 'm right , it 's something I 've never seen before . |
| 29 | " All he did something I 've never seen before . |
| 30 | ‘ I particularly enjoyed learning to shoot an SA20 rifle and 9mm pistol which is something I 've never done before . ’ |