Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And twenty five pounds worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers for nothing for that . |
| 2 | His gift of tears in prayer would have counted for nothing without this . |
| 3 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 4 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 5 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 6 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 7 | From a democratic point of view this would , of course , be no improvement if the will of the Protestant minority then similarly counted for nothing in that larger context . |
| 8 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 9 | You do not get something for nothing in this world and they know this . |
| 10 | Reputations count for nothing in this game . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Woe to us ! ’ they say , ‘ For nothing like this has happened before . |
| 12 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 13 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 14 | And most of the other wordings discussed have no sense of ‘ request ’ about them at all . |
| 15 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 17 | Obviously neglects them and does not care about them at all . |
| 18 | As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one . |
| 19 | Do you know anything about them at all , their form and what sort of leagues they play in ? |
| 20 | erm Do n't really know much about them at all erm they are an old boys side erm but erm we really do n't know too much about them . |
| 21 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 22 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 23 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 24 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 25 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 26 | And shortly afterwards the television carries a special report about them in all the four main languages — Malay , Chinese , Tamil and English . |
| 27 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |
| 28 | By registering the product , you are added to the mailing list , and will be notified of any new versions , bug fixes and so forth , usually well before you read about them in any of the nation 's magazines . |
| 29 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 30 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |