Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You 've done nothing in five years , nothing since that Miss Gracie left . ’
2 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 .
3 He 'd have preferred Bernard to say nothing rather than patronize him .
4 Would you prefer to have nothing rather than something ?
5 ‘ 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 ! ’
6 ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 We are therefore committed to educating everyone so that this freedom is a reality .
10 Make your intentions clear to everyone so that they understand :
11 We can believe nothing only if this too is made into a belief .
12 The Captain said nothing so that he felt obliged to go on , to explain himself .
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 They beat everyone brutally and captured five people , including myself .
16 Returning to learning is not easy for everyone especially if you 've had time out to bring up your kids .
17 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 .
18 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 ?
19 Sympathy with the person involved is often mentioned as the reason for cautioning someone rather than charging them .
20 She wanted to rehearse all her wisdom out loud to someone so that she could find out if she still believed it herself .
21 We shall have to try and swap seats with someone so that I can put my feet in the aisle . ’
22 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 ) .
23 Now , where a contract is unenforceable against someone merely because he is a minor , a contract of guarantee is enforceable against the guarantor .
24 ‘ He would slag off someone terribly and you would think they must have had a terrible row .
25 She beckoned to someone outside and a garda inspector walked in .
26 What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king .
27 What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king .
28 Please , can you find out from someone just where Mr. Andrew is ? "
29 Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister .
30 Although the government has told authorities they should not refuse a fast track assessment to someone just because they can not establish ordinary residence , there is nothing to say they may not .
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