Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning .
2 The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught .
3 The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway .
4 The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document .
5 My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers .
6 She becomes one with her instrument , lifting her head occasionally to smile at one or all of the band , or someone in the audience , but there 's a flow to the music that in my experience , is almost without parallel .
7 Or somebody in the yard he was paying .
8 2 Does it identify everyone or everything in the picture ?
9 Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream .
10 Yeah , I three pound ten pence or something in the vegetable shop that was er two pound forty for a cauli cabbage and er carrots .
11 Er if it was something serious , like say we 'd had a murder or something in the village
12 ‘ His reactions were like lightning , I 'll give him that , but there was a table or something in the way , thank Christ .
13 I Saw Three Ships or something in the region or something ?
14 Be able to , at least be able to sit out or something in the summer .
15 he always calls it lamade or something in the morning , do n't you ?
16 We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some
17 He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing .
18 You see if you 're if you do have a display caravan you can probably do some some grass displays of of large bearings or something in the front of it
19 hedge or something in the front ca n't you ?
20 Cos if you ever squared up to one of these or anybody in the flats , people 'd just come out of the out of the woodwork .
21 Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed .
22 Alternatively , if you , if he says , ‘ Well I want to have a , I read something and I want to have a discussion , ’ you think this chap does n't know anything about it , and you actually do a lot of the work for him or her in the circumstances .
23 The Court can also make Orders about where the child is to live and who is to see him or her in the event of a relationship breakdown .
24 If the child resists this to the extent of crying and screaming , the parent can desensitize the child by occasionally placing him or her in the high-chair during the day to play with a favourite toy .
25 The award covers what the court considers is reasonably sufficient to compensate the defendant for any expenses properly incurred by him or her in the proceedings .
26 You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink .
27 Record companies , managers or anyone in the music business can only notice your music if your band is at a venue playing in the public eye .
28 It is n't the wind or anyone in the school .
29 In particular , she expected perils out of the flatties — murderous hoodlums , crooked cops , knife-wielding janitors-but she knew that if he stretched his mind a touch , Daine could make anything or anyone in the City into a weapon .
30 They 're not like coarse fish , Jo , perch , or roach or whatever in the river , if you catch them , they just sort of , lie down and wait for you .
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