Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 2 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 3 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 4 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 5 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 6 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 7 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 8 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 9 | We 've already checked everyone in the piazza once . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 11 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 12 | So far they have received nothing from the Government , little EC assistance and are running out of funds donated by individuals and industry . |
| 13 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 14 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 15 | The Chief Justice said that exclusion depended on all the circumstances : here the interview was conducted with propriety and the solicitor would have added nothing to the knowledge the detainee already had about his rights . |
| 16 | He 'd added nothing since the night James came . |
| 17 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |
| 18 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 19 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 20 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 21 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 22 | Having considered something of the nature of aesthetic perception , it remains necessary to link this with education and with techniques stemming from Personal Construct theory which might well be used both for learning and for investigation in the area of artistic appraisal . |
| 23 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 24 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |
| 25 | He turned professional in 1885 having won everything from the half-mile to the ten-mile AAA 's events . |
| 26 | Have you ever caught anybody on the roofs . |
| 27 | Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent . |
| 28 | Of all the changes in the last two generations , only the great reservoirs of water for the industrial cities of the North and Midlands have added anything to the scene that one can contemplate without pain . |
| 29 | His father had not expected anything of the kind and was disappointed . |
| 30 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |