Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 3 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 4 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 5 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 6 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 7 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 8 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 9 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 10 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 11 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 12 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 13 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 14 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 15 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 16 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 17 | To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo . |
| 18 | ‘ So he gets everything on a plate and you get nothing but insults and disturbance , and upset because you ca n't help thinking about him for weeks afterwards . |
| 19 | The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot . |
| 20 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 21 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 22 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 23 | Reeling somewhat from the gin concoction , and making for the captain 's office , I console myself with the thought that if I need anything from an appendectomy to open heart surgery , there is no shortage of equipment or expertise to hand . |
| 24 | Firstly , an emotion may be expressed involuntarily or voluntarily ; if I say something in a ‘ happy ’ way , this may be because I feel happy , or because I want to convey to you the impression that I am happy . |
| 25 | Secondly , an attitude that is expressed could be an attitude towards the listener ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ friendly ’ way ) , towards what is being said ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ sceptical ’ or ‘ dubious ’ way ? or towards some external event or situation ( e.g. ‘ regretful ’ or ‘ disapproving ’ ) . |
| 26 | Secondly , an attitude that is expressed could be an attitude towards the listener ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ friendly ’ way ) , towards what is being said ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ sceptical ’ or ‘ dubious ’ way ? or towards some external event or situation ( e.g. ‘ regretful ’ or ‘ disapproving ’ ) . |
| 27 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 28 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
| 29 | if I see anything on the table I 'll just pop it in a freezer bag |
| 30 | If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ? |