Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | My mother obviously found something in the house . |
| 3 | The Government did nothing and have apparently learnt nothing from the experience . |
| 4 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 5 | We 've already checked everyone in the piazza once . ’ |
| 6 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 7 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 8 | His father had not expected anything of the kind and was disappointed . |
| 9 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 10 | The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk . |
| 11 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 12 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 13 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 14 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 15 | On most farms the division of labour has not reached anything like the level of most factories and there is a wider variety of jobs to perform and more job rotation . ’ |
| 16 | It is a pity that the editors have not provided anything in the way of an introduction , links between contributions , or even subdivision of the papers . |
| 17 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Because I 've just found one behind the wardrobe . ’ |
| 19 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 20 | they 've , they 've not put nothing in the papers |
| 21 | ‘ No , we have not perceived anything of the sort . |
| 22 | Have you ever caught anybody on the roofs . |
| 23 | The news provoked among Zuwaya an instant recognition of necessary truth : they had always suspected something of the kind . |
| 24 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 25 | Which meant we 'd always got somebody in the house , sort of baby-sitting really . |
| 26 | Nobody has ever suggested anything of the sort ever before . |
| 27 | A major review paper in 1956 also revealed something of the fusion research under way in the US . |
| 28 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 29 | In front of this table were four rows of benches , slightly raised one above the other . |
| 30 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |