Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you sold just one to eight on a flap that would be a tar er that would be a total revenue of six thousand pound . |
| 2 | This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all . |
| 3 | And Julius ate hardly anything at all . |
| 4 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 5 | Zen walked past it for another hundred and fifty metres to the separate entrance marked ‘ Societa Industriale Miletti di Perugia ’ . |
| 6 | They knew hardly anything about such an important subject as Magna Carta " . |
| 7 | He knew virtually nothing about European federalism , but here was Mrs Thatcher warning us that political union was on the cards . |
| 8 | Given these long-standing traditions , it seems amazing that , as recently as a decade ago , the scientific world knew almost nothing of these forest chimpanzees . |
| 9 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew absolutely nothing about this . |
| 11 | And here was the man himself , scarred face , heavy limp , and impressive bearing , demanding to see Sally-Anne , but he gave away nothing of this , merely said , ‘ What is it , Baines ? ’ and then to the intruder , ‘ And who the devil are you , sir ? |
| 12 | There remained only a narrow gauge track , reminiscent of an Emmett railway and called the Meusien , that was designed to supply the wants of a peacetime garrison , and the second-class road that ran alongside it for some fifty miles from Barle-Due . |
| 13 | he said well what about rainy days ? |
| 14 | said well something like that . . |
| 15 | . I said well something like that . |
| 16 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 17 | The two social groups had almost nothing in common : they lacked any common shared sense of a Polish past ; they did not share a sense of common identity ; and historically and geographically Warsaw was far too remote , and contact with it too inconsistent , ever to exert any power over the Pomeranian peasant imagination . |