Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With relegation now a virtual certainty , Hankin has nothing to lose by including the likes of Reed , to prepare for next season . |
| 2 | It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it . |
| 3 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 4 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing to go on with . |
| 6 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 7 | I 've no-one to go out with . " |
| 8 | If I 'm not careful , I 'm going to have nothing to fall back on . ’ |
| 9 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 10 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 11 | She had no other interests in life , nothing to fall back on . |
| 12 | If the cash crops fail for any reason , he has nothing to fall back on . |
| 13 | And what do you think about this idea of turning it into like a little piazza there for everyone to sit out on do you like that idea ? |
| 14 | She guessed it was pretty obvious that she had nothing to come back with when , his expression grimmer than ever , ‘ We 'll finish this conversation inside , ’ he clipped , and although Fabia would by far have preferred that he simply hand over her car keys and let her go on her way , she realised that there were some responsibilities in life which you just could n't duck . |
| 15 | The munitions workers are not forgotten , including Joan Williams who wrote of her new job : ‘ It was nothing to leap out of bed at 5.15 on a frosty morning and I almost danced down Queen 's Road under the stars , at the prospect of the day 's work before me . ’ |
| 16 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 17 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 18 | Nothing to worry about with that . |
| 19 | Mind you he also said that David Mellor , Norman Lamont and Michael Mates had nothing to worry about with their jobs . |
| 20 | Nothing to worry about at all . ’ |
| 21 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 22 | The storm 's blowing over and you 've nothing to worry about except fifteen years inside . ’ |
| 23 | The good news is that as none of your other fishes have shown any signs of disease it sounds as if it was something non-infectious , so that you should have nothing to worry about regarding their health . |
| 24 | You have done everything by the book and your water is spot on , but green water is truly a natural part of maturation and nothing to worry about in itself . |
| 25 | ‘ Jack is talking now about having nothing to worry about after watching us in Albania , ’ says Bingham . |
| 26 | Even after the scene with El-Jorr , Hurley did nothing to tighten up on security for the NARCOG operation . |
| 27 | I had always had someone to go round with , while in Europe , or in America ; and good company , any company , can make an enormous difference to one 's perception of whatever one happens to be perceiving . |
| 28 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 29 | I only want someone to go out with me … to the park , or the movies . |
| 30 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |