Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 2 | You do not get something for nothing in this world and they know this . |
| 3 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 4 | Reputations count for nothing in this game . ’ |
| 5 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 6 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 7 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 8 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 9 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 10 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 11 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 12 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 14 | I 'll question you about them in one hour . ’ |
| 15 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 16 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |
| 17 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 18 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 19 | In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set . |
| 20 | But it is the same for everyone on this world — even for the races that have no talons . ’ |
| 21 | Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature . |
| 22 | For everyone in higher education would agree that A levels are at best a very rough and ready guide to a pupil 's future development . |
| 23 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 24 | ‘ It would n't actually trouble me if men thought about me in that way . |
| 25 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 26 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 27 | We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly . |
| 28 | Altogether then er , an encouraging set of results and I 'll hand you over to Frank to take us through them in more detail . |
| 29 | Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them . |
| 30 | Look out for them at major department stores . |