Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you say nothing succeeds like success and number seventeen is success and how do you spell success |
| 2 | We 'd recommend Garda for those who want plenty to do on holiday , or to groups with different interests — families with teenage children perhaps . |
| 3 | Risk It Miss justified odds of 4–5 winning its heat from Sullane Castle and has drawn its favourite trap one , while Milligan 's wide-running Bring Plenty runs from trap six . |
| 4 | I mean you will you will go on merrily your own sweet way and erm I I hope nothing happens to sort of |
| 5 | Geneva Show Nothing succeeds like excess 4 |
| 6 | Broadcasting regulations prevent anyone appealing for money on a programme like that , but he sidestepped the rules very smartly . |
| 7 | Do n't let this dispiriting , depressing Thursday get you down ; seek out the company of light-hearted pals who never let anything get on top of them . |
| 8 | ‘ I know nothing came to court , ’ said Theodora . |
| 9 | And then there is the anger of her adopted black brother , who smashes down the martyrdom of her father : ‘ I know plenty blacks like Burger … ’ |
| 10 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 11 | Generally ABC and Scritti 's ideas — that rock music is finished , and only black music is a viable vehicle for intelligence ; that if you believe in what you do you owe it to yourself to dive headfirst into the mainstream — still exert something verging on hegemony . |
| 12 | encourage everyone to contribute to agenda creation ( see , for example ‘ The problem list ’ in chapter 19 on page 154 ) |
| 13 | iron , very important , you know you ca n't there 's ca n't be a house in the country that you go into and not find something made of iron . |
| 14 | This was unkind of Lydia , for Betty was not popular with men , which was another reason for Lydia to dislike her , since Lydia was one of those women who find something contaminating in ugliness and prefer to mingle only with those who are at least as attractive as themselves . |
| 15 | Point one divided by point zero one . |
| 16 | If the council choose someone to act as bailiff , the act of serving the eviction order on the old man ( in effect delivering a letter ) becomes a highly charged dramatic moment . |
| 17 | ‘ I never 'ave anything to do with trash if I can 'elp it . ’ |
| 18 | I have also been told I am photogenic and I love anything to do with hair and make-up . |
| 19 | Certainly there are daily actions that help someone to stay in recovery just as the daily wearing of spectacles or contact lenses helps to overcome the effects of short sight . |
| 20 | yep If the procedure owner thinks that more substantial discussions are needed then we prepare something based on model assignments paper which summarises the erm , in put so far making the proposal as a bases . |
| 21 | I have nothing to lose except self-respect and honey , that went months ago . |
| 22 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 23 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 24 | Perhaps , then , the stripes have nothing to do with defence against predators . |
| 25 | ‘ People are looking for values which have nothing to do with success . ’ |
| 26 | A more crucial issue concerns the use of the technology by other firms and organisations that have nothing to do with electronics . |
| 27 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 28 | And most of these new journeys have nothing to do with work . |
| 29 | We are talking about living communities : dynamic , changing ; subject to pressures which have nothing to do with agriculture ; but imposing on other aspects of life constraints which arise from involvement in agriculture . |
| 30 | Hence the elaboration and the perfection of explanations for inflation which have nothing to do with Government is something in which you naturally find politicians of all schools , but particularly of the public expenditure school , joining with good will . |