Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tension just builds up and it builds up , and when you come out you say , ‘ Right , I 've got nothing to lose anyway , I 've been to prison so I know what it 's like . |
| 2 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 3 | And he has realised that he had nothing to lose even if I am spying for Carlotta . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was 17 I 'd probably think I had nothing to lose either . ’ |
| 5 | There was no-one singing now . |
| 6 | ‘ For everyone to go away . ’ |
| 7 | they had , they 've been telling everyone to go home . |
| 8 | We want to make it easy for everyone to go abroad on holiday , regardless of limited mobility or other handicaps . |
| 9 | There was nothing to see yet , but that would come . |
| 10 | Lonely nights , why he got drunk — just nothing to go home to . |
| 11 | The organizer can also say things like ‘ the tide turns ’ which means everyone changes direction ; ‘ the sea got rougher ’ which means everyone goes faster ; and ‘ the eels were hopping mad ’ which means all eels have to hop . |
| 12 | Everyone goes there . |
| 13 | Greenpeace have a meeting somewhere I 'm sure everyone goes there by car . |
| 14 | That 's the thing about pub rock — everyone goes home happy . |
| 15 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 16 | Let's assume they 're all self sufficient , the world market essentially becomes a residual market , it 's not the market place where everyone goes any longer , it 's the market where just a few people will go . |
| 17 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 18 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 19 | ‘ La Loge ’ had been up very recently , and with nothing sold lately at anything like $12 million , it is hard to say what it is now worth . |
| 20 | British Rail tells us that the 5.51 Sheffield to Paddington train is 15 minutes late this evening , but I 've nothing to report so far on the buses . |
| 21 | Everyone lived together ; there was no privacy . |
| 22 | No-one wanted to know , unless they could get rewrites where everyone lived happily ever after and stars of The Cosby Show had the lead roles . |
| 23 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |
| 24 | Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents . |
| 25 | Septimus is trained out of his bad habits in the end , and everyone sleeps happily ever after . |
| 26 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 27 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 28 | Conversation stopped and everyone became frightfully solicitous . |
| 29 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 30 | Everyone got happily drunk together and a good time was had by all ; so long as the band kept the beat , what they played was immaterial . |