Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 2 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 3 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 4 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 5 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 6 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 7 | In some folk it will make them this or that , perhaps , not in every body , but for some folk it will do that , but his greatest purpose in your life and in my life is to reproduce Jesus Christ to make us like him . |
| 8 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 9 | Norman led them both and then lost them both . |
| 10 | He saw no reason not to enjoy them all and he was quite generous enough to share his enjoyment with others by providing , once a year , a venue for the Show . |
| 11 | Well they would n't cover them all but erm I see what you 're getting at . |
| 12 | The police asked me that as well . |
| 13 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 14 | Well mum , mum got me this when |
| 15 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 16 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |
| 17 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 18 | And she read them all and is n't that lovely ? |
| 19 | Lord Lane speaks not only for Lord Lane , but for the whole of society , to which Lord Lane represents nothing less than Lord Lane himself . |
| 20 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 21 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 22 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 23 | It involves nothing more than putting up 80-foot masts all over the land . |
| 24 | This involves nothing more than putting right the small faults such as leaks , poor control settings and using excessive temperatures or times for various energy consuming activities . |
| 25 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 26 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 27 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 28 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 29 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 30 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |