Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having survived a British pre-qualifying event last week for a wild card place in this week 's draw , Ahl said she felt she had nothing to lose against a player who is about 200 places higher in the world rankings . |
| 2 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 3 | Everyone goes to the concerts . |
| 4 | Everyone argued about the jury . |
| 5 | And I 've nothing to report on the buses or trains . |
| 6 | And Hill added : ‘ There is nothing to report to the FA as far as I am concerned . |
| 7 | The slight pallor beneath his tan and the white bandage high on his left arm did nothing to detract from the air of menace about him . |
| 8 | But not everyone agrees about the quality of epoflex . |
| 9 | Not everyone agrees with the dollar link ; some would prefer the Hong Kong currency to be tied to a basket of currencies . |
| 10 | Everyone drives on the left , the traffic lights are red , green and amber and people still wait until the lights turn to green before signalling that they 're turning right , leaving you stuck behind them . |
| 11 | Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded . |
| 12 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 13 | Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre . |
| 14 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 15 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 16 | In this sense , everyone belongs to a culture or sub-culture and is ‘ acculturated ’ ; any distinction between ‘ cultured ’ and ‘ uncultured ’ represents a particular value-judgement within that culture . |
| 17 | Howard James had felt pain before , but nothing to compare to the agony he felt from his shattered leg . |
| 18 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 19 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 20 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 21 | But that 's our business , taking risks , and it works well enough — as long as everyone plays by the rules . ’ |
| 22 | Not everyone shared in the boom ; in particular the farmers did not . |
| 23 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 24 | ‘ But now Miss Kyte must leave you , or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion . ’ |
| 25 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 26 | ‘ Monsieur , everyone stands by the edge of the water and stares at the fish , that 's why we have such ponds . |
| 27 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 28 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 29 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 30 | We love the way everyone joins in the spirit of the thing . |