Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
2 | historical , biographical , rhetorical , mythical , Freudian , jungian , existentialist , Marxist , structuralist , Christian-allegorical , ethical , exponential , linguistic , phenomenological , archetypal , you name it ; so that when each commentary was written there would be simply nothing further to say about the novel in question . |
3 | Instead of choosing one road or another , like Hercules at the crossroads — sin or virtue , company or solitude , capitalism or collectivism — as ancient religions and modern dogmas have sometimes demanded , it invites one rather to settle into a questioning and critical acceptance of things as they are . |
4 | Go and push a few notes on your own piano ; there 's no one here to wince at the sound you make these days . |
5 | So , this was something else to add to the list of things that Guido cared about . |
6 | Now Bill Sweet was dead , there was no one else to put on the pressure . |
7 | Nothing here to compare with the vision of a Leonardo da Vinci or the breathtaking intellectual feats of an Einstein . |
8 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
9 | The inference to be drawn is that , if we want to keep taxes down we should encourage everyone else to smoke like a forest fire . |