Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours .
2 Inside is a long , uncarpeted prison-like corridor with bedrooms on either side of it , a television lounge which is furnished in the drabbest possible manner and a recreation room which contains nothing but a few wooden chairs and tables .
3 Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father .
4 As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space .
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6 If you want to meet someone with the same hopes , ambitions and interest as yourself , and are simply not meeting them socially or at work , Dateline , the largest longest established and most successful computer dating agency in the world combines personal service with the speed and efficiency of modern technology to open up a whole new circle of compatible people for you ; interesting , suitable people who could be living very close , people who you might never meet without Dateline 's help .
7 You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him .
8 On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline .
9 Johannsen also claimed one in the latter area at 1150 .
10 Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount .
11 Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick .
12 My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’
13 Made one at the same time together .
14 You can not do everything at the same time .
15 I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here
16 He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’
17 Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always .
18 Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier .
19 I do nt think they ve had one for a few years .
20 Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time .
21 He 's a very good short story writer , but I do n't see anybody with the same mixture of writerly craft and stamina which Greene had .
22 Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight .
23 He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that
24 It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days .
25 Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time .
26 Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post .
27 Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another .
28 A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable .
29 So design one on the same scale as the backcloth .
30 As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes .
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