Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 2 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 3 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 4 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 5 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 6 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
| 7 | Since then , they estimate that he has seen something in the region of 70 doctors . |
| 8 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 9 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 10 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 11 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 12 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 13 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 14 | There 's one if you pick up one there I think one of those cards there has got one on the planner and one on the erm |
| 15 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 16 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 17 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 18 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 19 | I do n't know if anyone wants to put anything into the pool of things that , points that we raised and er or a general feeling that they had after that meeting . |
| 20 | , Lory production director and safety representative , said : ‘ The programme of training has reached everyone in the company . |
| 21 | In other words , the sentence with to asserts drop as a fact and perception is invoked merely as the means which has brought one to the knowledge of this fact : perception took place ; therefore the dropping can be inferred and asserted . |
| 22 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 23 | In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists . |
| 24 | Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months . |
| 25 | Mr Lamb said : ‘ The council has put nothing in the budget to celebrate the anniversary yet Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle has just got £100,000 from the county council to mark its centenary . |
| 26 | The ‘ no meaning ’ theist denies that the theist needs to say anything about the existence of God that is intelligible to those who do n't already accept the existence of God as true . |
| 27 | has achieved none of the learning outcomes |
| 28 | It can from , in situations where the employer wants to take one on the life of the employee . |
| 29 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 30 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |