Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had nothing to lose by ostentatious atonement for past sins ; and St Eadwold , whose relics Cerne claimed to possess , was the brother of Edmund of East Anglia . |
| 2 | Er nothing to report on that . |
| 3 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about consultants getting everyone to attend between 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock , for example , and then keeping them waiting . |
| 4 | not nothing to compare with this . |
| 5 | These figures are n't showing an upturn , and there is nothing to indicate from inter-company comparisons that anybody else in the industry is experiencing anything different . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got nothing to hide from each other . ’ |
| 7 | All right for some , Nutty thought despondently , thinking of the others in the warehouse feeding the horses , nothing to worry about any more . |
| 8 | ‘ You say you are not lost , yet it seems unusual for someone to come across this spot . ’ |
| 9 | So you got two choices : either you send someone to look for these clowns , or you say , ‘ Oh well , I do n't know , something must have happened , and I 'll forget all about it . |
| 10 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 11 | It 's got enough room as well to put all the bits and pieces , mind you if you had a house like that you could afford to have someone to look after all the goats and the hens . |
| 12 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 13 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 14 | We traditionally take two wicket keepers on tour , Alec Stewart is one of them , but he 'll be opening the bat and we need the best wicket keeper and someone to bat at 7 or 8 and Jack Russell is the man . |
| 15 | Never a rough edge , no moving part that does n't slide smoothly into place , nothing to baulk in that explosive split second you need the thing to work . |
| 16 | Ellmau is the larger of the two resorts and there is plenty to appeal to all tastes . |
| 17 | In spring , summer , autumn and winter , visitors to Zakopane find plenty to enjoy in this uniquely beautiful mountain region . |
| 18 | ‘ Lustig ’ is the quality missing here but , having said that , I found plenty to enjoy in this seldom aired repertory . |
| 19 | And there 's plenty to do for non-sailing friends . |
| 20 | I had plenty to do between normal routine work at Felixstowe and preparation connected with taking over Searcher . |
| 21 | If so he would give them all plenty to do off 10–11 . |
| 22 | Er , as you can imagine if you try and tell somebody to park in one place that somebody else has parked already , you could end up with some some misunderstanding , so there is erm a generous amount of parking to bring the total parking to the whole area up to the level that was erm put forward in the first master plan . |
| 23 | So all in all there 's plenty to read in this month 's Outdoor Action , with plenty of walking routes , a test on dome tents , our comprehensive rucksack gear guide and plenty of other outdoor pursuits . |
| 24 | I certainly have plenty to learn on that subject . |
| 25 | Get more friction on that , clever of somebody to think of that , did n't they ? |
| 26 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 27 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 28 | The psychologists have plenty to say about this , about how the repressed emotion can then be projected on to a partner , or cause a kind of dual way of life to develop , where a woman may be sweet and lovely on the surface but grasping and rapacious beneath . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're looking for somebody to blame for needless deaths , look no further than Sheldukher . ’ |
| 30 | Her party 's platform is imbued with religious themes and ethnic Hungarians — different from the majority of the Romanians in religion , language and traditions — have nothing to expect from this religious revival . |