Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 3 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 4 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 5 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 6 | Someone carried out to the nine men a tray of bottled beer and the spell broke . |
| 7 | Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably . |
| 8 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 9 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 10 | Evening , music , a drink , and someone coming home on the six-eighteen . |
| 11 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 12 | To see why someone relates more to the transcendent Father , or to the incarnate Son , or to the indwelling Spirit , he needs a growing understanding of the Trinity . |
| 13 | As he turned back to the eerie blue-blackness of the strip lights in the corridor , Cardiff heard a thick grunt and the slap of someone falling heavily to the tiled floor . |
| 14 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 15 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 16 | nothing came out of the last committee meeting to a definite , this is definite this . |
| 17 | if they had the well because nobody came forward from the working class through it , it was the intellectuals that started it and gathered the |
| 18 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 19 | Nobody worked harder in the nineteen eighty seven general election than I did . |
| 20 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 21 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 22 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 23 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 24 | A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data . |
| 25 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 26 | In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign . |
| 27 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 28 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 29 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 30 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |