Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember how Dorothy L. Sayers started her career in Whose Body ? : with the corpse of a stranger in someone 's bath " with nothing on but a pair of pince-nez " . |
| 2 | ‘ If you knew how ridiculous you look , standing there with nothing on and your finger up your nose . ’ |
| 3 | You 've done nothing in five years , nothing since that Miss Gracie left . ’ |
| 4 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 5 | He 'd have preferred Bernard to say nothing rather than patronize him . |
| 6 | Would you prefer to have nothing rather than something ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got no food and we ca n't stop the humans and we 're trapped in the quarry and I 've tried to keep everyone together and now it 's all gone wrong ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’ |
| 9 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 10 | A set of four small pastel drawings depicting nothing more than burning leaves , haystacks , and a solitary tree convincingly carry nothing less than 400 years of European history — from the displacement of Catholicism , the enlightenment , the Holocaust to the decay of capitalism . |
| 11 | We are therefore committed to educating everyone so that this freedom is a reality . |
| 12 | Make your intentions clear to everyone so that they understand : |
| 13 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 14 | We can believe nothing only if this too is made into a belief . |
| 15 | The Captain said nothing so that he felt obliged to go on , to explain himself . |
| 16 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 17 | ‘ Something awful 's in the closet , ’ she 'd sobbed to Grams , and Grams had first held her and comforted her , then opened the door to show her that there was nothing inside but clothing . |
| 18 | They beat everyone brutally and captured five people , including myself . |
| 19 | Now they could do you a boatload right off the shelf , nothing down and nothing to pay if you shoot 'em in the right direction . ’ |
| 20 | Returning to learning is not easy for everyone especially if you 've had time out to bring up your kids . |
| 21 | And if these stories are to be believed then Jesus was a walker too , liking nothing better that a hearty stroll in the beautiful Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 22 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 23 | And someone — someone from close by , someone on or near this site — caught him in the act , and took drastic action . |
| 24 | Sympathy with the person involved is often mentioned as the reason for cautioning someone rather than charging them . |
| 25 | She wanted to rehearse all her wisdom out loud to someone so that she could find out if she still believed it herself . |
| 26 | We shall have to try and swap seats with someone so that I can put my feet in the aisle . ’ |
| 27 | Examples include warning someone so as to render police investigation fruitless ( Hinchcliffe v Sheldon [ 1955 ] 1 WLR 1207 ) and drinking alcohol after driving to frustrate the breath test procedure ( Ingleton v Dibble [ 1972 ] 1 QB 480 ) . |
| 28 | Just happened to be there and he , he , he was telling the meeting that when he 's canvassing , going door to door , he , he knows as soon as walking up the drive whether there 's someone in or not . |
| 29 | Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I , perhaps he might lend me a hand ? |
| 30 | Cos at any time I mean , if we 're here I mean there 's always someone in cos I 'm working nights so I 'm here in the days . |