Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've telephoned everyone I can think of , but it 's no use . |
| 7 | There iss nothing I 'd like as much . ’ |
| 8 | And we want nothing which will tend to rehabilitate the fallen fortunes of the Liberal Party in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ He needs someone who will look after him and nearly everything to do with him . |
| 10 | The grant officer 's job is specialised and needs someone who will look , particularly on major adaptations , at what is required . |
| 11 | It really needs someone who can get the information unofficially . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The secret of making a good talking-head recording is to find someone who can tell an interesting story . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If this is a worry for you , it is important to find someone you can trust to talk to . |
| 18 | Try to find someone you can trust to talk to . |
| 19 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 20 | Do you know someone who would appreciate the sentiments ? |
| 21 | But almost everyone will know someone who can help them get round the limit . |
| 22 | Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know someone who might fit the bill . |
| 23 | People want someone they can look up to . |
| 24 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 25 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 26 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 28 | It 's their duty to find somebody they can convict of Maurice 's murder . ’ |
| 29 | Knowing you were n't , that maybe you 'd taken my advice and gone off to find somebody who could love you back , left me in turmoil . |
| 30 | ‘ You may know somebody who can make a dress for you , or help you make your own , ’ said Fenella Willis . |