Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 2 | Then he enquired , ‘ Did n't Celia , as a little girl , ever say anything to you about the incident at the Cove ? ’ |
| 3 | But he said Apex did n't know anything about it at the moment . |
| 4 | I learnt something about it in the past yeah |
| 5 | They had n't said anything to him at the depot ; they had n't told him anything about not getting unemployment money . |
| 6 | After suggesting the reason for his presence was revenge , he asked , ‘ Has Anna said anything to you about the man who attacked her ? ’ |
| 7 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 8 | Ooh , I 've got something for you in the cupboard . |
| 9 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 10 | But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn . |
| 11 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 12 | like a bit not pointless , well it , it 's just that I do n't really , I 'm not getting anything from it at the moment so |
| 13 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 14 | That does not mean we will hear nothing from them for the next 25 days . |
| 15 | Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January . |
| 16 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 17 | He wanted to know if I was interested in doing something on it in the magazine . |
| 18 | The aim will be fulfilled if the teacher 's aid encourages self-help skills and good personal organisation by the pupil rather than doing everything for him in the way of fetching and returning materials . |
| 19 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought nothing of it at the time , because my knee has straightened after five minutes in the past . |
| 21 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 22 | She knew nothing about him beyond the fact that he was immensely wealthy , the owner of the London-based Silver Star Navigation who for some strange reason had branched out into the fashion industry . |
| 23 | He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving . |
| 24 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 26 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir Thomas insisted on reading the prince 's letters as a condition of his acting as go-between , and saw naught in them save the boyish fondness of a lad in his thirteenth year for a lass of similar age . |
| 28 | Anyway , no one thought anything of it at the time . " |
| 29 | I 'm afraid it did n't mean anything to me at the time . |
| 30 | It had meant nothing to him at the time , but now … |