Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 2 | It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way . |
| 3 | Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt . |
| 4 | Poor Andy knew nothing about the fact that his bride was planning to sport shorts for the most important vows of her life . |
| 5 | Kathleen remembered nothing of the drive home , turning automatically into the parking area behind her flat and letting herself in with hands that shook so badly she could scarcely hold the keys . |
| 6 | The portraits of Chatterton have something of the importance to the novel that the living and ageing likeness has in The Picture of Dorian Gray . |
| 7 | Er I think Ruth says anything in the hope that it 's somewhere near right . |
| 8 | Lucenzo muttered something to the man , who grinned understandingly . |
| 9 | Brenda welcomed everyone to the meeting . |
| 10 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
| 11 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 12 | Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right . |
| 13 | If Iskandara said anything of the matter to James , he let it go no further . |
| 14 | No doubt , repeated election victories under the leadership of Mr Hawke owe something to the disunity of Right-wing forces in Australia , but the fresh emphases in Labour thinking are also very significant . |
| 15 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 16 | HEART-THROB Patrick Swayze gets one in the eye from a small boy in the forthcoming heat-and-dust saga City Of Joy . |
| 17 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 18 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 19 | Then , on September 9th , Amundsen called everyone to the back of the ship . |
| 20 | When news of the event reached the graveyard cottage Willie had overheard Tom muttering something to the effect that it was a wonder the tree did n't have to be taken too . |
| 21 | However , the Bishop of London refused Hossmer a licence and the following November issued one for the incumbent of the English Church . |
| 22 | I did want er Mr to say something about the pestilence , because it is a very serious matter for this Committee . |
| 23 | Again , the research of June Sheppard in Yorkshire suggests something of the timing and the occasion of village planning in that area . |
| 24 | Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end . |
| 25 | Anna sees something under the table by the tree . |
| 26 | Liz Spalding looked anything but the fighter that she was ; she could get people off their guard , get their defences down , just by looking at them . |
| 27 | Jed did everything by the book , sounding the warning horn before every pull and staying well clear of Diane and the gun . |
| 28 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 29 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 30 | By the time he meets his benefactor Pip has none of the sympathy of the reader as he is snobby , condescending and harsh towards Magwitch as is shown in this quote from Pip |