Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was natural , really , and it meant nothing nothing at all . |
| 2 | shortness of breath , or s nothing nothing like that at all ? |
| 3 | Hawkins said : ‘ Van Gelder told me nothing of this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The strip showed huge distorted bodies with monster heads and twisted limbs sprouting with such things as : ‘ Vera , your beauty is unsurpassed in the undeniable excess of its obscenity and still you mouth me nothing but zero . ’ ’ |
| 5 | He has given me nothing but total loyalty and respect at a time when I needed it most . |
| 6 | And nobody 's gon na give me nothing for that are they ? |
| 7 | He 's been giving me them for eight months now . |
| 8 | I would however I I with great trepidation as I do n't think I 've ever dared do it before , er is try to actually clarify the thoughts of my leader erm it is not erm , have I your permission erm I I I feel I feel he may , I feel that |
| 9 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 10 | The technical accomplishments of modern medicine mean that doctors can often save the life of someone who in previous ages would have died . |
| 11 | So we 're giving em it for six months . |
| 12 | When it came to war the humans won overwhelmingly — because their internal fights had given them plenty of military experience , while their enemies , although more formidable on paper , had had none . |
| 13 | When your side wins an election , you expect it to help its followers by giving them plenty of undemanding if not very well-paid jobs ( kicking out the other lot 's placemen in the process ) , arranging nice little contracts , inventing new pension wheezes , and so on . |
| 14 | The most important thing when keeping caterpillars is to give them plenty of fresh food . |
| 15 | Now , tell me which of these two you want to go for ? ’ |
| 16 | The Long Service presentations are an annual event to which everyone with twenty five or more years ' service is invited , together with the immediate family of those receiving their award . |
| 17 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 18 | A woman is the ‘ opposite ’ to Christ in a way in which someone of another race is not . |
| 19 | Which you on all estates will execute |
| 20 | If the success of the election hinged on any one province , it was Kompong Cham — the home of Hun Sen , the prime minister of the Phnom Penh government and the area from which one in six of the members of Cambodia 's constituent assembly will be returned . |
| 21 | ‘ Which one in particular ? |
| 22 | Communication , in these terms , has to do with some general UNIVERSE OF REFERENCE or MODEL OF REALITY which we as human beings carry inside our heads , and which consists of all the things we know , believe , judge or understand to be the case in the world in which we live . |
| 23 | The song is , it appears , about the lack of sex education in schools , a subject which we at Public NME feel is indeed worthy of airing , and what a shame more of our nation 's pop stars have n't taken up the musical cudgel , so to speak . |
| 24 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 25 | That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future . |
| 26 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 27 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 28 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 29 | A procedure which anyone with any pretensions to correct behaviour would perfectly understand . |
| 30 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |