Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most clothes shops sell nothing we can wear , and specialist shops are expensive and offer a very limited range of images . |
| 2 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 3 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 4 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 5 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 6 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 7 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 8 | By ‘ personal care ’ I mean nursing someone who can not fully look after themselves and/or performing domestic tasks which they are unable to undertake . |
| 9 | ‘ So she met someone who could seemingly give her all the things I was n't able to . ’ |
| 10 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 11 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 12 | I 've telephoned everyone I can think of , but it 's no use . |
| 13 | This large collection contains nothing which could n't be found in the libraries of a major city such as Middenheim or Altdorf ( allow any scholarly type an Int test to realize this ) , except for the Chaos/heresy works , which would be restricted-access in the temples . |
| 14 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 15 | There iss nothing I 'd like as much . ’ |
| 16 | And we want nothing which will tend to rehabilitate the fallen fortunes of the Liberal Party in the country . |
| 17 | ‘ He needs someone who will look after him and nearly everything to do with him . |
| 18 | The grant officer 's job is specialised and needs someone who will look , particularly on major adaptations , at what is required . |
| 19 | It really needs someone who can get the information unofficially . ’ |
| 20 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 21 | If you need someone to do the taping , either make it one musician 's responsibility , or try to find someone who would like to mix your sound at gigs . |
| 22 | I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person . |
| 23 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 24 | If the main stumbling block is how you present yourself try to find someone who will practise mock interviews with you , concentrating on any problem areas the checklist has helped to reveal . |
| 25 | The secret of making a good talking-head recording is to find someone who can tell an interesting story . |
| 26 | If you know someone who has AIDS , or if you are worried or have questions about the illness , try to find someone you can trust to talk to about it — maybe your parents or a teacher or some other adult you feel close to . |
| 27 | If this is a worry for you , it is important to find someone you can trust to talk to . |
| 28 | Try to find someone you can trust to talk to . |
| 29 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 30 | ‘ I know less than nothing about you , and if you 're important , which you must be if you 're a , well , a tycoon , then I expect you entertain a lot — friends , business associates — which means that you 'll need someone who 'll be a credit to you — and I do n't know if I can ! |