Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my superior self made nothing of that . |
| 2 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 3 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 4 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 5 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 6 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 7 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 8 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 9 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 10 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 11 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 12 | Lee used nothing but this disc to carve the piece with an angle grinder , and he describes some of the effects the tool can achieve . |
| 13 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 14 | Happily , we found somebody with all the qualities and experience we needed and welcomed Paul Smith on board . |
| 15 | We tried one like that did n't we ? . |
| 16 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 17 | Very little seems to have come of the initiative until five years later , when the Treasury created something along these lines for the Conservative Chancellor , R. A. Butler , as part of an examination of spending on the social services . |
| 18 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 19 | I never found anybody with any trouble ever having any trouble with it . |
| 20 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 21 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 22 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 23 | ‘ Whoever mentioned anything about that ? ’ |
| 24 | Or , they maybe replacing some of these but they got plenty of these , or they 're replacing some of these but they 've got plenty of these ? |
| 25 | We got plenty of those . |
| 26 | I made plenty of that . |
| 27 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 28 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 29 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 30 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |