Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who 'd been in the right place a couple of times . |
| 2 | If he could find someone who had been through the mill as he had and then collaborate with them , great things were possible . |
| 3 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 4 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 5 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 6 | I 'm actually also hoping to get , someone who was erm concerned at the campaign to come to the meeting , cos I think it would be very useful to have someone who 's been through it and to say how , how they tackled it , so I think it should an interesting meeting , hopefully we 'll get a few , you know interesting people to come along and we can spend from that meeting campaign . |
| 7 | He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can . |
| 8 | ( And before you shudder at the thought , may I , as someone who has been on the receiving end , assure you that it does not hurt . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that unvented hot water cylinders often come with all the components pre-fitted to the hot water cylinder , the Building Regulations require the use of an ‘ Approved Installer ’ — which means someone who has been on a proper training course . |
| 10 | Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect . |
| 11 | Only someone who has been in Moscow can fully appreciate that it is a city in which the warmth and intelligence of the people sometimes compensates for a basic implacable drear which , however submerged , remains the dominant backdrop to all pleasures . |
| 12 | Yes , he has said that and I am saying , I am saying , as somebody who has been in the front line against this violence , and with due respect to Mr Major knows a little more about it than he does |
| 13 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 14 | He asked everyone who had been to Denmark about the barracks at Trelleborg and Aggersborg and Fyrkat . |
| 15 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 16 | Blanche coughed and responded that the police were talking to everyone who had been at the farewell party on the sixth floor , including Parkin and Pargeter . |
| 17 | As they approached , she recognised the leader of the group as being one who had been with the previous rafting party . |
| 18 | He was the one who had been inside me , so that I suddenly knew , like a reprieve , a baby was coming , my links were strengthening . |
| 19 | Since they 'd met he was the one who had been in charge , the one who had called the tune . |
| 20 | One of the men sounded furious , the other frightened — the one who 'd been in their car . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's the one who 's been at you ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He 's the only one who 's been in there for the last ten years . ’ |
| 23 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 24 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was disappointed at what happened , but I 'm not the only one who has been through something like that . |
| 26 | Anybody who had been to Venice must , he thought , confess that much of the beauty of that city consisted in the fact that at every turn the eye met with different kinds and styles of buildings , — at one moment Palladian and at another Gothic . |
| 27 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 28 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 29 | But I can think areas er like on Europe , I do n't there 's been anybody who 's been in terms of projecting the issue erm , er better than George Robertson has dode done in terms of the European er issue . |
| 30 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |