Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | With relegation now a virtual certainty , Hankin has nothing to lose by including the likes of Reed , to prepare for next season . |
| 3 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 4 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 5 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 6 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 7 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 8 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 9 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 10 | Make sure that the board you buy has a large daggerboard ( longer than 50cm ) which fully retracts into the hull leaving nothing sticking out under the board . |
| 11 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 12 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 13 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 14 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 15 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 16 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 17 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 20 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 21 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 23 | Like someone struggling out of a drugged sleep , Sarella flickered open her eyelids , blinking in confusion as if unsure as to where she was . |
| 24 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 25 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 26 | There were newspaper reporters standing in the lane where he had lived , waiting all day for someone to come out of the house . |
| 27 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , it 's not unusual for someone to come in off the street and tell us they owe a million . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I really want someone to come along with an order so I can get on and make half a dozen . ’ |
| 30 | Continued on Page 4 Continued from Page 1 Chief Insp Phil McDonald said : ‘ It is obvious that someone cares dearly for the child as clothing and provisions were left with him and he appears to be well cared for and in good health . ’ |