Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep . |
| 2 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 3 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 4 | ‘ I will see her , and if it 's Sally-Anne , which I suspect it might be , and not someone masquerading as her for some God-forsaken reason , I 'll send her to you . |
| 5 | Cooper said : ‘ Would you be happy if someone jumped at you with two feet ? ’ |
| 6 | ( 6 ) is very similar : given the opinion that Sir Jee had of himself , he could not understand what could lead someone to speak to him in such a way . |
| 7 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 8 | However , virtually nothing came of them except occasional improvements . |
| 9 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 10 | Nothing came of it until 1968 , by which time Larner had achieved additional fame as speech-writer for the anti-war Democrat Senator Eugene McCarthy , as he made his challenge against Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination . |
| 11 | Nobody sits in their for eight hours of an evening ! |
| 12 | I do n't think I could handle somebody living with me like that . |
| 13 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 14 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody knows about it at all , ’ said the parson . |
| 16 | Nothing to do with me at all . |
| 17 | ‘ Then it 's nothing to do with you after all . ’ |
| 18 | and they put an article in saying , it 's got nothing to do with it at all ! |
| 19 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 20 | I thought she was really very nice and my opinion was formed from that one meeting with her by pure accident . |
| 21 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |
| 22 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 23 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 24 | No one looked at her like that ! |
| 25 | ‘ No one speaks to me like that ! |
| 26 | Agnes disliked rings on men , although to be fair to Husband — which she had no intention of being — she had little trouble in finding something to dislike about everybody from Six . |
| 27 | This concept of a community or culture struggling for its existence is not something attributed to it by academic observers , but one expressed in the community 's actions and statements . |
| 28 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 29 | and Tim Kennedy said they were off , though ; maybe they 'll have something to say about it in due course . |
| 30 | But everything changed for him on 12 June 1989 when he eventually came to . |