Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 2 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |
| 3 | Something on the local news about her poking some television woman in the eye , to say nothing of her dancing the night away with John Major . |
| 4 | There 's plenty of us to do the work . ’ |
| 5 | But er however there were none of them struck the camp . |
| 6 | Competition in a market with few suppliers , none of them controlling the market but each relatively large ( oligopoly ) is much more likely to be distorted if one of those suppliers takes over or acquires an interest in another , than in a market characterised by fierce competition among many suppliers . |
| 7 | But at least none of them saw the light of print — until today 's souvenir edition . |
| 8 | None of them imagined the number was in fact as high as 500,000 . |
| 9 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 10 | None of them have the wherewithal to conceive of a Reconciliation . |
| 11 | It was the 37-year-old writer 's fifth play after Stop It , Whoever You Are ; Big Soft Nellie ; Nil Carborundum and Kelly 's Eye , none of them making the voyage across the Atlantic . |
| 12 | As he drove back , he had tried each element individually , and none of them broke the pattern . |
| 13 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 14 | But none of it contradicted the evidence Defries had seen , and some of that had been equally unbelievable . |
| 15 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 16 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 17 | We were all very young and shy and none of us had the courage to approach and speak to them . |
| 18 | ‘ None of us take the music biz too seriously . |
| 19 | Even then , none of us suspected the scale of his misdeeds against the women he claimed he wanted to help . |
| 20 | ‘ He said something about you phoning the story in , ’ he insisted . |
| 21 | I had to study something of it to put the exhibition together . |
| 22 | And each one of them felt the patches , strains and gaps in their craft as if they were weak places in their own bodies . |
| 23 | Each one of them envisaged the scene where Hans Kramer , overwhelmed by their particular performance , begged to represent them in the international field . |
| 24 | How necessary it is for each one of us to apply the cross to our daily lives — to our giving to one another and to God of our money , our time , our talents . |
| 25 | The one with you chop the chop and then there will be squares |
| 26 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 27 | ‘ If my intention was to become famous worldwide , it would mean something to me to unify the titles . |
| 28 | Here 's the solution to the football puzzle … four Jimmy Greaves books to be won here … so congratulations to Mr. Soule and Philip Gearing … and Neil calcutt and Linda Betteridge … lots of you tried the rugby … winners of a book each are … |