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 | With relegation now a virtual certainty , Hankin has nothing to lose by including the likes of Reed , to prepare for next season . |
| 6 | There was no-one singing now . |
| 7 | It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it . |
| 8 | ‘ For everyone to go away . ’ |
| 9 | they had , they 've been telling everyone to go home . |
| 10 | We want to make it easy for everyone to go abroad on holiday , regardless of limited mobility or other handicaps . |
| 11 | It 's because your civilisation is in decline , and you want everyone to go down . |
| 12 | There was nothing to see yet , but that would come . |
| 13 | ‘ The coroner wants to resume now , but I 've told him we 've nothing to go on . |
| 14 | So far we have an apparently motiveless murder of an innocuous young doctor , and nothing to go on . ’ |
| 15 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 16 | Phones were ringing , computer screens were displaying information , and still there was nothing to go on . |
| 17 | We had no official contacts with any of the new Cuban leaders and therefore nothing to go on but rumours . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing to go on with . |
| 19 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 20 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 21 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 22 | Lonely nights , why he got drunk — just nothing to go home to . |
| 23 | No ring on his hand , but that was nothing to go by . |
| 24 | Neither was wearing a ring , but that was nothing to go by . |
| 25 | ‘ Having an idea is nothing to go by . ’ |
| 26 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 27 | Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel . |
| 28 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She hates the way everyone goes on in England . |
| 30 | But they 're like you know , I suppose everyone goes through , I bet my dad was like that when he was younger a bit you know , all have a laugh and a joke and |