Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twins ’ daddy has paid for you and me , Mr Breakspear , and for everyone else on board this boat , but even with all that money and all this boat , we still might not succeed with them . ’ |
| 2 | Mark uses the story to introduce the fact that the message of the Gospel is not only for the Jews but is for everyone regardless of race . |
| 3 | But we are 3 years ahead of everyone else in playground design . |
| 4 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 5 | The colour harmonies of La Paysanne and other works of the period are mostly predominantly earthy , creating a sensation of something midway between wood and flesh . |
| 6 | A feeling of something very like envy passed through Sara as she watched her . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything just at present , ’ said Lili . |
| 8 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 9 | Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! ) |
| 10 | LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH |
| 11 | ‘ Like nothing else on earth , young Angel , but I do n't expect you to understand . |
| 12 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 13 | Like everything else in elephant capture , this is a hazardous operation and would be impossible but for the presence of the trained koonkies . |
| 14 | Like everything else in life that is worth having it requires some effort and self discipline . |
| 15 | It 's like anything else in law if procedures are not carried out properly . |
| 16 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 17 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 18 | Each of these future estates , though it gave no present right to possession or enjoyment , was treated as something already in existence , which could be disposed of and would descend ( so far as it is inheritable ) just like a present estate . |
| 19 | She was wearing big maternity clothes and felt " dead weird " being with everyone else in school uniform . |
| 20 | your previous home is empty because you have gone to live with someone else in order to receive personal care due to your age , illness or disability . |
| 21 | ‘ But we were all in our twenties , taking it very seriously , and we did n't feel we could take a chance with someone still at school . |
| 22 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 23 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 24 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 25 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 26 | Another commonly-accepted indication of intelligence is the way animals deal with the unpredictable contingencies of their world through learning ; and it is here that our intuition tells us that we must be dealing with something very like intellect . |
| 27 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 28 | You ride high and comfortably , with everything conveniently to hand . |
| 29 | It is not enough to agree a deal in principle with a receiver , the purchaser will have to deliver the cash before anyone else in order to win . |
| 30 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |