Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes there is a hidden agenda which is more innocent where , for example , someone may question you about something in order to establish your credibility or in order to weigh you up .
2 Dad , I used to say , you are your own worst enemy and someone 'll kill you for it one day .
3 They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one .
4 Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’
5 Eric Robinson had two pieces of advice for worried consumers ‘ Nobody should harass you in your own home .
6 Afterwards nobody could tell us about our route and it may have been a first ascent — we still do not know .
7 Nobody could blame you for it . ’
8 When one day nobody could rouse him from his trailer , it was Lee Marvin who entered quietly and found a sombre , lonely , sad man .
9 What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives
10 You will find , young lady , that nobody will employ you without what you evidently know only too well how to give .
11 ‘ But nobody will join them in it , because nobody respects them .
12 If I do it for Edward King , somebody will do it for me .
13 You might not be able to see all of this somebody will talk you through it .
14 Nothing could take you from me , or put aught between us . ’
15 Instead , there was a tall , straggly looking tree seemingly at precisely the right spot , but it was definitely not a palm ; no-one could mistake it for one .
16 He said , none shall pluck you from my hand !
17 No one could do it in our house-not even Albie .
18 All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task .
19 No one could approach me without my authority .
20 I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me .
21 If the mountain is beautiful from the shore , it is mouth-watering from the top of Ben Damph , and as we retraced our steps through the snow , elated at having finally swapped slippers for boots and crampons , we knew that nothing would keep us from it .
22 I got this notion that I 'd some terrible disease – as if the Con was n't terrible enough – and everybody would catch it off me .
23 Everyone will blame me for you stopping the rehearsal . ’
24 Her philosophy has always been to give her best to the job in hand : " If that is well done everyone will want you on their team . "
25 Nothing will dissuade them from their evil plans .
26 People do not understand that no-one will pay you for your blue eyes in a capitalist society .
27 There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist .
28 He ate the strawberries quickly before anyone could ask him for one .
29 ‘ Oh yes , it did , ’ said Lili , ‘ though , mind you , I think it highly unlikely that anyone would tell you on your wedding day that you looked the most frightful frump — not , ’ she added hastily , ‘ that you did .
30 I mean , if anyone would pay them for it ? ’
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