Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 2 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 3 | But the impact on the camp lacked nothing in effect on that account . |
| 4 | But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England . |
| 5 | Her enemies implied that Eugénie read nothing but novels or lightweight ‘ feminine ’ books , but in fact her library revealed an interest in science and philosophy , though history predominated . |
| 6 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |
| 7 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 8 | His secrecy about his unhappiness made everything about daily life seem a little counterfeit , apart from meals with Sam and sprees with him at the pictures . |
| 9 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 10 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 11 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 12 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 13 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 14 | A glint of light caught something on his wrist . |
| 15 | Euturpia Kennedy 's eyes pursued something in Delia Sutherland 's expression until , finally , she said , ‘ I remember the last time I saw you . |
| 16 | One of Nogai 's brothers shouted something in Yek and everybody laughed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Honestly , Lang caused nothing but trouble in the Pilbara when he was first up there . |
| 19 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 20 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 21 | The cars parked one behind the other in a row on the road that crossed the green from the Hall to the church . |
| 22 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 23 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 24 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 25 | Ramsey believed none of this . |
| 26 | It was suggested that , because the third parties received nothing under the transaction , it would be unworkable to make an order requiring them to restore ‘ the parties ’ ( that is the contravener and the investor ) to the status quo ante . |
| 27 | During his up and down summer , Hick received plenty of advice from well-wishers , but he admits : ‘ The difficult bit was to decide which bits of advice were going to help . |
| 28 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 29 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 30 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |