Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects took longer to answer a subsequent question like Did the boy that the man saw wave ? than one like Did the boy the man saw wave ? |
| 2 | Ricimer more than anyone else dominated the politics of the last twenty years of the Roman Empire in the west . |
| 3 | That 's not to say that he ever endangered a patient , but it did n't worry him if someone else took the rap for his misdemeanours . |
| 4 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |
| 5 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 6 | Obviously it was an inside job , cos nobody else knew the presents were there . |
| 7 | In cases involving accidents at work , and in factory cases in particular , your own client or a close work colleague may be able to ask around to see if anybody actually saw the accident itself or can give background information about events leading up to the accident . |
| 8 | If anyone else ran a yard of sixty flat-race horses like he did , they would have been out of business years ago . |
| 9 | ( He did not remark , but I did later , that if anyone truly deserved the title of ‘ egg-head ’ , it was Belgion , with his huge bald , smooth , oval-shaped head . ) |
| 10 | If anyone ever deserved a hardship bonus , it was him . |
| 11 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 12 | How can anyone dream up a handicap system whereby my handicap can go up because somebody else scored a net 65 ? |
| 13 | At a matter of fact , it 's rather interesting that because somebody actually had a go at Peter about this , he 's a B B C er and we er , we should n't enter into politics about this , but you know the background of Peter . |
| 14 | If anyone out there wants a crane , makes an offer to Bristol Works Department in about three years ' time — they bought it cheap ( £16,000 ) because nobody else wanted a crane that could n't be moved about easily ! |
| 15 | Cycling in you know , and of course because nobody else wanted the job , sometimes we were supposed to share it with another , and nearly everybody else , except me , would be too big you see . |
| 16 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 17 | And then , when no-one even blinked an eye , nor have him any money , nor ( surprisingly enough ) the offer of a job … ‘ ‘ ; the stifling heat in the Métro tunnels , as if it were about to explode at any moment , and this uplifting sense of drifting , passing through whole areas of life scarcely touching on any of them . |
| 18 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 19 | No longer were the sole colours available black and scarlet , for one now had the choice of midnight blue , holly green and turquoise , the latter being usually reserved for infants . |
| 20 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 21 | Instinctively he rolled in the saddle and felt the white-hot stab of pain as something sharp scored a line across his shoulders . |
| 22 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |