Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 2 | Do you need one after the next one , 'cos which sticks one , which |
| 3 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 4 | Secondly , is this the earliest pattern in this area and , if not , can we detect anything of the previous arrangement ? |
| 5 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
| 6 | But Packer 's difficulties are worth recognising because not only do they reveal something of the cultural context within which Auerbach 's work signifies , they also typify — albeit unconsciously — the burden of historiography and the demands of convention in writing about anything that purports to be a portrait . |
| 7 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 8 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 9 | Only if he really craned his neck sideways could he see anything of the front bedroom windows and then not enough to make the effort worthwhile . |