Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The other two barmaids , all agog , who would talk about nothing else for the rest of the Gay .
2 But for him , as for everyone else in the capital , the course of events must now have been discerned as inevitable .
3 A member of the circle will babysit for you and , in exchange , you 'll babysit for someone else in the circle while your partner stays at home with your own children .
4 You do n't want to be thinking about someone else at a time like this .
5 I might need it fer summat else beside the coal . ’
6 This public image has been important in fostering a perception of Mrs Thatcher as somebody apart from the Cabinet .
7 Do n't forget to vote for somebody tomorrow in the election .
8 One thing in particular that frightens the business community is the possibility of an elected regional assembly for the north-west , with powers to tax , which would inevitably be dominated by the cities of Liverpool and Manchester , to the detriment of everyone else in the area .
9 Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles .
10 For the moment he could think of nothing apart from the name .
11 As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room .
12 Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic .
13 Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in .
14 In short , we can see that we do not exist separately in space and time but in spacetime — and the same is true of everything else in the Universe .
15 Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments .
16 And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump .
17 The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood .
18 But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain .
19 As it swung against the wall , there was a thud of something hard in the pocket .
20 The same can not be said for Sharp who has continued to play well below anybody else on the team every game .
21 In front of everybody else in the hotel . ’
22 It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey .
23 Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list .
24 She 'd seen no trace of anyone else in the village , and no sign of anyone along the afternoon 's walk .
25 Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game .
26 She made no backward glance to signify the presence of anyone else in the room .
27 Cawthorne was leaning over the machine , blocking my view of anything else inside the bunker , and I slid around to check whether I could see in through the slits .
28 In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable .
29 There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife .
30 Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from .
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