Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 2 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 3 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 4 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 5 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 6 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 7 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 8 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 9 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 10 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 11 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 12 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 13 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 14 | The second leg of our yankee is the eight forty five , well this is a sprint race ; two fifty metres , only erm only go round two bends , and therefore you have to have some erm early pace sort of erm greyhounds , and I 'm going to go for a trap one here , Chair Boy 's Blue , he 's already won plenty over this erm shorter trip . |
| 15 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 16 | He had expected something like this , and had picked his spot to call Doyle very carefully . |
| 17 | Erm most of the furniture we choose either because we know it from inventories and lists to have been the kind of thing that was in middle class households in York , or in some cases like this , where we know the 's have actually owned something like this . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that . |
| 19 | Why had n't she realized how hopeless she had become , how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy ? |
| 20 | In the first pass he had already claimed one at 0938 , Uffz . |
| 21 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 22 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 23 | Hardy 's Wessex must have looked something like this . |
| 24 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 25 | That regrettable reminder that people existed outside the Casa Pinar had cooled everything to fast-freeze point . |
| 26 | Her suffering would have overwhelmed anyone with less spirit , as the futile efforts of science to rid her of the growths ravage her body . |
| 27 | Jim would n't have let anyone in umless he knew them . |
| 28 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 29 | People do n't get fined anything like that for mugging an old lady . ’ |
| 30 | Handfuls of froth simply mean that the manufacturer has added lots of foaming agents . |