Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 2 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 3 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 5 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 6 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 7 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 10 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 11 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 12 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 13 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 14 | Do n't get me wrong — I 've nothing against the leather-clad hordes , for they are a cheerful fraternity . |
| 15 | " I 've nothing against the poor nips , " he said crossly ; " only , not now , we ca n't afford them now . " |
| 16 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 17 | I have none in the whole world to call my own . |
| 18 | Erm I see nothing in the current Bradford U D P which suggests that they are n't erm majoring on urban regeneration , that they 're doing they 're doing exactly that . |
| 19 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 20 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 21 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 22 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 23 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 24 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 25 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 26 | He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks . |
| 27 | Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 29 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 30 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |