Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 2 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman on trade , industry and employment , Malcolm Bruce , attacked the Chancellor 's statement as a Budget of despair and disappointment which provided a little relief for the unemployed and nothing for those attempting to counter the effects of the recession . |
| 3 | She only had two days left , and the thought of nothing after that made her shiver with dread . |
| 4 | Whether it was the wishes of the archdiocese ; or whether it was the inarticulate growls of air-marshals ; or whether it was the judgement that someone of 73 carries too many years to move to big new work ; or whether someone among Eden 's advisers thought scholarship important for some bishops — Eden rejected Fisher 's preference that Ramsey should go to London . |
| 5 | There are plenty of people who have super-efficient secretaries , but the majority of us can only dream of having someone like that to put our working lives in order . |
| 6 | Snobbish Rufus had not thought it possible for someone like that to live there , but why not , after all ? |
| 7 | You do n't want to run the risk of someone like that getting at you , so steer right away from any of the sorts of activities listed above . |
| 8 | Last year someone at last cracked the tide mystery . |
| 9 | But nothing of that survives at all . |
| 10 | But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner . |
| 11 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 12 | Given that Paris shop windows are piled with ever more beautiful bed and table linen , there must be plenty of that to do . |
| 13 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 14 | Quite transcendent , quite beyond the abilities of most people , and it really takes somebody like that to pull the genre up , to be singled out and to be remembered that way . |
| 15 | I think even Billy knew you had to sleep with somebody before that happened . |
| 16 | And just as nobody at first believed that the Germans slaughtered Jews , nobody wanted to believe that young American soldiers could kill women and babies . |
| 17 | ‘ And once you 're a tower , nobody but nobody at Mars-U wants to know you . |
| 18 | A voice from the press benches said loudly of this rather elementary point of honour : ‘ Thank God somebody at last had the guts to say it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll be out to make sure nothing like that happens again . |
| 20 | Nothing like that had just happened in the subway . |
| 21 | Nothing like that had happened before in the history of Hochhauser . |
| 22 | ‘ I sincerely hope nothing like that happened . ’ |
| 23 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 24 | No thank God er nothing like that has ever affected er any of our shows any part of the world . |
| 25 | Nothing like this occurs in the artificial form of the algorithm . |
| 26 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 27 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 28 | Nothing like this had ever happened while Cedric still lived with Dorothy ! |
| 29 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 30 | The neighbours of the four involved families were vehement that there was nothing like this going on . |