Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I 've still nothing to report to you on the buses or trains . |
| 2 | And I 've nothing to report to you on the buses or trains . |
| 3 | British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses . |
| 4 | British Rail tell us their services are running to schedule this evening and I 've nothing to report to you from the bus services in the area . |
| 5 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 6 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 7 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 8 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 10 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 11 | As the British Airways Boeing 757 twin-engined jet touched down on Runway 27 Left at Heathrow at 8.33 a.m. , Adam concluded that there would probably be someone watching for him at the shuttle terminal . |
| 12 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
| 13 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 14 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 15 | Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel . |
| 16 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 17 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 18 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 19 | Morrissey , it should be pointed out , had absolutely nothing to do with it at the time . |
| 20 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 21 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 22 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 23 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 24 | The symbol is the one selected by you in the configuration file as ‘ USERACCESSLOGICAL ’ . |
| 25 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 26 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 27 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 28 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
| 29 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 30 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |