Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 2 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 3 | The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway . |
| 4 | Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning . |
| 5 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 6 | She becomes one with her instrument , lifting her head occasionally to smile at one or all of the band , or someone in the audience , but there 's a flow to the music that in my experience , is almost without parallel . |
| 7 | Or somebody in the yard he was paying . |
| 8 | Or somebody in the next place or the next place , we reckon we know where it is |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ McDunn says , looking at his notebook , ‘ we 've found people who think they remember seeing you in the Broughton Arms Hotel on the night of Sunday the twenty-fifth of October , when Sir Rufus was murdered . ’ |
| 10 | 2 Does it identify everyone or everything in the picture ? |
| 11 | I Saw Three Ships or something in the region or something ? |
| 12 | Er if it was something serious , like say we 'd had a murder or something in the village |
| 13 | Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream . |
| 14 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 15 | ‘ His reactions were like lightning , I 'll give him that , but there was a table or something in the way , thank Christ . |
| 16 | You see if you 're if you do have a display caravan you can probably do some some grass displays of of large bearings or something in the front of it |
| 17 | er , I 'll do , you know the afternoon or a morning or something in the middle school |
| 18 | he always calls it lamade or something in the morning , do n't you ? |
| 19 | hedge or something in the front ca n't you ? |
| 20 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 21 | Yeah , I three pound ten pence or something in the vegetable shop that was er two pound forty for a cauli cabbage and er carrots . |
| 22 | Be able to , at least be able to sit out or something in the summer . |
| 23 | Cos if you ever squared up to one of these or anybody in the flats , people 'd just come out of the out of the woodwork . |
| 24 | Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed . |
| 25 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 26 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 27 | If the child resists this to the extent of crying and screaming , the parent can desensitize the child by occasionally placing him or her in the high-chair during the day to play with a favourite toy . |
| 28 | The Court can also make Orders about where the child is to live and who is to see him or her in the event of a relationship breakdown . |
| 29 | The award covers what the court considers is reasonably sufficient to compensate the defendant for any expenses properly incurred by him or her in the proceedings . |
| 30 | As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered . |