Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was famous for nothing besides denying the Lord and putting his foot in his mouth up to the kneecap on several occasions , but he was chosen . |
| 2 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 3 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
| 4 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 5 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 6 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 7 | Batty 's other great strength is controling the ball , no matter how fast or high it is he brings it down with his chest or foot so he can lay it off for someone else to make a defence splitting pass . |
| 8 | 5 If you leave a message for someone else to phone the journalist back , check to see that they have not missed the message or forgotten to fulfil it . |
| 9 | Evidence suggests it is generally best to tell early ( even while the adoptee is still a baby ) so the child grows up with the knowledge ; it also removes the risk of someone else telling the child . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't think I could face the idea of someone else having the job , ’ she laughs , ‘ but it was also a great opportunity for me . ’ |
| 11 | But the loss of one simply paved the way for the loss of the other . |
| 12 | However , the charge is often returned by environmentalists who note how much farmers pride themselves on being ‘ stewards ’ of the English countryside for the benefit of future generations and for the nation at large , but then deny the right of anyone else to have a say in how it should be maintained for them . |
| 13 | I 've never heard of anyone else having the problem , but I ca n't be the only one who sweats like a pig ! ’ |
| 14 | Still , Waggoner manages to shoot in the 90s , describing himself as " an honest 18 " , and declares a love for the game tempered by a firm dislike of anything remotely resembling a country club or a length of polyester . |
| 15 | A friend and I spread the maps out , moved the cats , and decided to pick off five Munros that form a horseshoe ridge culminating in Sgurr a' Mhaim , and including something ominously titled the Devil 's Ridge . |
| 16 | Before I could twist my face into anything faintly resembling a sneer , the vendor explained that there were four such structures in a similar state of repair and that a Frenchman had expressed great interest . |
| 17 | There are a lot of instant millionaires in Los Angeles , where a guy could come from nothing then have a hit record , or hit movie and have $12 million all of a sudden . |
| 18 | Do you really think I 'd do that — take money from you for doing one thing , and at the same time take money from someone else to do the opposite ? ’ |
| 19 | In one long experiment a woman and bottlenose dolphin lived together constantly fur several months . |
| 20 | I 've relied on someone else to do the vetting . |
| 21 | Or it could be sold to someone else planning an assault . |
| 22 | On one weekly visit the relative could not cover all the needs of the elderly person . |
| 23 | Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued . |
| 24 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 25 | A decision to veto a Single Currency must therefore be accompanied by one permanently to leave the ERM . |