Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 2 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 3 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 4 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 5 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 6 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 7 | They caught someone in the Bazaar just the other day . |
| 8 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 9 | One therefore hopes that an understanding of how black holes create particles will lead to a similar understanding of how the big bang created everything in the universe . |
| 10 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
| 11 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 12 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 13 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 14 | Even , however , if it was rightly decided , it is remote from the present issue , since it proceeded on the basis that the giving of surety for a defendant 's bail created something in the nature of a civil debt . |
| 15 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 16 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 17 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 18 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 19 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 20 | Laura believed everything in the home should contribute to a pervading sense of calm and peacefulness ; the same calm and peacefulness she had first discovered at her aunt and uncle 's home in suburban Wallington . |
| 21 | He muttered something in the direction of his wife , something about ‘ if she had a moment ’ . |
| 22 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 23 | I collated everything in the evening , I improvised , it would be a pleasure . |
| 24 | Appreciative though he was of Penny , ally though he felt her to be , there is between nineteen and twenty-three a great gulf fixed which prevented anything in the way of advances . |
| 25 | His penis was as thick as a chair leg and measured something in the region of seven inches in a flaccid state . |
| 26 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 27 | They have that particular one because the two little girls wanted to be bridesmaid 's , have just been bridesmaid 's and have these dresses and Anna thought the colour was so pretty , cos she went into Laura Ashley and got one in the sale of last years stock . |
| 28 | get that stapler , got one in the garage |
| 29 | SUPPOSE you have a print by Picasso , Dali , Miro or Chagall , or sold one in the past few years : you have a special interest in a Brooklyn courtroom this week . |
| 30 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |