Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from the weather craft are made available for nothing to other governments under international agreements . |
| 2 | And twenty five pounds worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers for nothing for that . |
| 3 | His gift of tears in prayer would have counted for nothing without this . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 10 | You do not get something for nothing in this world and they know this . |
| 11 | Reputations count for nothing in this game . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Woe to us ! ’ they say , ‘ For nothing like this has happened before . |
| 13 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 14 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 15 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 16 | And most of the other wordings discussed have no sense of ‘ request ’ about them at all . |
| 17 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Obviously neglects them and does not care about them at all . |
| 20 | As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one . |
| 21 | Do you know anything about them at all , their form and what sort of leagues they play in ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 24 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 27 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 28 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 29 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 30 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |