Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 2 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 3 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 4 | Is the Secretary of State aware that his scandalous decision will be greeted by outrage not only in Aberdeen and the surrounding area by everyone connected with the medical and caring professions but by everyone right across the political spectrum in the north-east of Scotland , including the hapless Marcus Humphrey ? |
| 5 | The antler and noose would be used in the mock execution of the Morrisman , and the wild jig would bring everyone on to the green , laughing and screaming in the hot , summer night … |
| 6 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 7 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 8 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 9 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 10 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 11 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |
| 12 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 13 | Such is our penetration of the market that someone somewhere in the world uses an HTFS program to design a heat exchanger every minute of the day . ’ |
| 14 | Wise and Newell scored in each half as England demonstrated the simple virtues of producing accurate crosses and getting someone on to the end of them . |
| 15 | ‘ I told him we were thinking of putting someone on to the story , and needed to know if it was worth following up . |
| 16 | I was very new on the wing and someone in for a bad sex offence talked about their crime and I was badly affected . |
| 17 | ‘ Lee 's got this idea , ’ said Lee 's Mum , ‘ that if he lets Caspar out , someone down at the farm in the village will shoot him . ’ |
| 18 | ( A local party may choose someone not on the list , but it must obtain approval from the national party for its choice . ) |
| 19 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't want there to be any half-measures , did n't want to make love to someone just for the sake of it . |
| 21 | Alternatively , you can start a discussion by asking someone just beyond the offender to speak first and then go round the meeting leaving him until last . |
| 22 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 23 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 24 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 25 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 26 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 27 | Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd better go and tell someone up at the camp that she 's come round . ’ |
| 29 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 30 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |