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

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1 The other two barmaids , all agog , who would talk about nothing else for the rest of the Gay .
2 Tim and Richard talk about nothing else in the staff room .
3 But for him , as for everyone else in the capital , the course of events must now have been discerned as inevitable .
4 A member of the circle will babysit for you and , in exchange , you 'll babysit for someone else in the circle while your partner stays at home with your own children .
5 The voice sounded surprisingly strong for someone supposedly in the throes of a heart attack , thought Lindsey , stepping into the suite and only with a real effort stifling an exclamation of amazement .
6 You do n't want to be thinking about someone else at a time like this .
7 I might need it fer summat else beside the coal . ’
8 This public image has been important in fostering a perception of Mrs Thatcher as somebody apart from the Cabinet .
9 Do n't forget to vote for somebody tomorrow in the election .
10 Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles .
11 One thing in particular that frightens the business community is the possibility of an elected regional assembly for the north-west , with powers to tax , which would inevitably be dominated by the cities of Liverpool and Manchester , to the detriment of everyone else in the area .
12 For the moment he could think of nothing apart from the name .
13 As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room .
14 Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic .
15 Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in .
16 In short , we can see that we do not exist separately in space and time but in spacetime — and the same is true of everything else in the Universe .
17 " How strange it is , " mused Fleury , feeling the futility of everything yet at the same time enjoying the feeling , " that these millions of wings , with all their wonderful machinery of nerves and muscles , should be made to serve the purpose of a single flight .
18 Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments .
19 There was a flicker of something else in the shadowy gaze now .
20 One is to a large extent the consequence of something deep in the Greek character .
21 And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump .
22 The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood .
23 But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain .
24 As it swung against the wall , there was a thud of something hard in the pocket .
25 The same can not be said for Sharp who has continued to play well below anybody else on the team every game .
26 In front of everybody else in the hotel . ’
27 It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey .
28 Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list .
29 Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game .
30 But it helps to give the band our own sound , and I ca n't think of anyone else in the whole world that 's doing it . ’
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