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

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1 No , I was only one away from the wedding .
2 This was be this was er er there was a ceremonial parade when we stood down but this was er erm something that like that the town in recognition of the Home Guard Cos when the Home Guard was stood down it was a national er a national standing down so everybody all over the country er everybody in the country there 'd be a er a parade of some sort but this was for the Walsall detachment of the South Staffs Home Guard that was invited to , to the town hall for er a reception , it was quite it stood in re er I still can remember about it quite quite something to look back on that was really .
3 She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other .
4 We 're just going over something again for the exam . ’
5 Being smart and persistent are vital qualities in pursuing change , because whatever you want , you can be sure that someone , usually someone higher up the tree , is going to be against it , and is going to try to force their solution on you instead .
6 At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds .
7 This will kill of the cancer cells but it will also kill off anything else in the vicinity .
8 In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics .
9 Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with .
10 Probably one later in the meal , and from the timing probably the goose , though perhaps the soup .
11 I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind .
12 Her skin , like nearly everything else in the room , was ghostly white , yet strangely bruised along one cheekbone and about the neck .
13 ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob — push the door open — go inside — close the door gently behind you so that you do n't wake up anybody else in the house ; now you go to the basin — put the plug in — turn on the tap — it 's a very stiff tap … ’ ( p. 196 ) .
14 Man of the Match was Dave Tilson ( from Bohs ) who out ran Strachan and just about everyone else on the park .
15 Against them are ranged just about everyone else with a flavour of Unix — including IBM , which has AIX — in a group called the Open Software Foundation .
16 Presumably everybody else in the world did it she thought .
17 ‘ There is n't one either to the title or the land .
18 Had n't anybody else in the room seen her ?
19 If farmers do not accept the responsibility there is rarely anyone else in a position to do so .
20 What Dickson did do , along with almost everyone else in the event , was beat Jochen Schumann and Thierry Peponnet .
21 Almost everyone else in the world must have loved it , Benny thought grimly , all over the place people left cinemas humming the tune and wishing they looked like either Kay Kendall or Kenneth More .
22 He was often invited to Hassans birthday party , and since he was usually the only other monarch there , he took precedence in the receiving line over almost everyone else in the room .
23 NetWare SunLink puts Sun on a path already trodden it seems by almost everyone else in the industry .
24 They started talking with animation , like almost everyone else in the car .
25 would n't have Bert and Jasper ( and , by extension , the rest of them , Alice included ) then something else of the kind would certainly make its appearance .
26 And dotted in mines and quarries from New Zealand clockwise around to Easter Island , the ocean is littered with cobalt , zirconium , titanium , antimony and almost everything else under the sun .
27 Yes , that 's true , what so you have to hold the phone away from your ear , and then everybody else in the office can hear the conversation as well as you can .
28 But can you tell me a reason why everyone else on the Base must die to protect your secret ? ’
29 Yet no-one else in the world had even considered such a blend , certainly not the Californians .
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