Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissonance between the act of firing someone and the manager 's beliefs about what is acceptable or decent behaviour from one individual to another can be extremely painful . |
| 2 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 3 | An individual event which normally gives a particular ERP may sometimes yield nothing and the ERP may sometimes occur in the absence of the evoking event . |
| 4 | He shouts something but the wind wrenches it away . |
| 5 | Here , the information presented as given is that Mr Rowland wants something and the information presented as new is that this something is the early publication of the report . |
| 6 | They may sit around watching their child play but only say something when the child starts to misbehave ; injunctions not to do something or to be careful or not to make so much noise focus on control issues only . |
| 7 | I ate nothing until the day arrived , and all morning I waited impatiently for the coach . |
| 8 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 9 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 10 | However they received nothing when the cash distribution took place last week . |
| 11 | The times a poor old lady 's been raped and robbed in , they 've got to inspect all the gas pipes or they 've got to inspect something or the other . |
| 12 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 13 | The Minister should realise that it says everything that the Government should put in no financial support for the Devon and Cornwall development company . |
| 14 | Thou shalt do everything that the church says thou shalt not . |
| 15 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 16 | Newcastle deserved something but the decision did disappoint us . |
| 17 | It was not his place to serve anyone but the Captain and if he ever found out it would mean punishment . |
| 18 | Oh my god , I have n't even done anything and the bell 's gone . |
| 19 | Anyway we went up there but we could n't do anything because the ground had taken fire do you see , all this peat . |
| 20 | ‘ Call yourself Mamur Zapt and you ca n't do anything when the woman you claim you love pleads to you for justice ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't do anything if the team does n't do things for me . ’ |
| 22 | But now , Holly , you 're in Hut 2 of ZhKh 385/3/I , and nobody did do anything and the hut is reality . |
| 23 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 24 | In short , if one had assembled a number of publications and collated them , one would have had everything that the prosecution claimed was a state secret . |
| 25 | Well cos , for the sake of ten days there er er er erm Martin was gon na fix the problem , erm within ten days but we do n't wan na have to go back and reprint everything cos the unit statement 's perfectly valid . |
| 26 | Why should women believe anything that the Government say ? |
| 27 | Dare we believe anything that the Secretary of State for Wales will say ? |
| 28 | ‘ I said I did n't want one and the nurse said ‘ Why are you down here anyway ? ’ |
| 29 | Fitzosbert whispered something and the giant nodded and pushed his way into the cell . |
| 30 | They heard nothing until the sound of the toilet flushing . |