Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
| 2 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 3 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 4 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
| 5 | ‘ 'T WAS like nothing I 've ever felt before either . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 7 | You 're … you 're like no-one I 've ever met or would hope to meet . ’ |
| 8 | Clough is someone I 've long admired , a tremendous club player who no doubt makes his dad Brian very proud . |
| 9 | Why would someone I 've never met want to kill me ? |
| 10 | I do the same if someone I 've never seen comes up and uses one of my names . |
| 11 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 12 | But if you were describing my act to someone who 'd never seen it , what words would you use ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 15 | With such thoughts bringing peace to my troubled , weary being I sank gently into sleep , to dream of the happiness to be found among the galaxy 's wonders by someone who had just become immeasurably rich … |
| 16 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 17 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 18 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 19 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It — it hurts , being around someone who 's just killed someone … or hurt them . |
| 24 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 25 | As a thousand fists beat as one , Flav , the rap equivalent of The Sugarcubes ' Einar , breaks into his regular spoilt kid routine , jumping up and down like someone who 's just had his pocket money stopped , while the ‘ menacing ’ S1Ws , clad in slick white sailor suits , make an appearance as evacuees from a Person advert . |
| 26 | As a thousand fists beat as one , Flav , the rap equivalent of The Sugarcubes ' Einar , breaks into his regular spoilt kid routine , jumping up and down like someone who 's just had his pocket money stopped , while the ‘ menacing ’ S1Ws , clad in slick white sailor suits , make an appearance as evacuees from a Person advert . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ You look pretty sober for someone who 's just started on whisky , ’ said Sarah as they walked towards the bus stop . |
| 29 | ‘ For someone who 's just attempted something incredibly stupid , you 've got nerve , I will say that , ’ he observed , his gaze flickering to the comb in her white-knuckled fingers . |
| 30 | Margaret closed the briefcase with a click , like someone who has just completed a sale . |