Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 2 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 3 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 4 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 5 | He got nothing like the price of it . |
| 6 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 7 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 8 | If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked . |
| 9 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 10 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 11 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 12 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 13 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 14 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 15 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 16 | For a sensational week he published a news-sheet which libelled everyone from the governor 's wife to the assistant chaplain , including both together . |
| 17 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 18 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 19 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 20 | They caught someone in the Bazaar just the other day . |
| 21 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 22 | For Katherine the landscape bore none of the familiarity of a picture postcard . |
| 23 | One therefore hopes that an understanding of how black holes create particles will lead to a similar understanding of how the big bang created everything in the universe . |
| 24 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 25 | He turned and shouted something to the mercer below . |
| 26 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 27 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 28 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 29 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
| 30 | He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space . |