Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst Henry II was in Normandy , he learned of Thomas 's continued intransigence and that caused Henry II to utter the words , ‘ Will no-one rid me of this troublesome person ? ’ , which prompted four knights of his household to cross to England and assassinate Thomas Becket in his Cathedral , on 29th . |
| 2 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 3 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He needs someone to help him with that estate . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously if someone put me onto some good night fishing that would be different . |
| 6 | If someone gave you minus four , it would turn that into sixteen . |
| 7 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 8 | I 've had someone trailing you since that meeting at the meat warehouse . |
| 9 | Practical jokes were the order of the day during the making of The Jokers ; everyone played them on each other . |
| 10 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 11 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 12 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |
| 13 | Some guys are n't going to be able to walk for a week — they 've got tattered feet , but er nobody begrudges it , nobody begrudges it at all . |
| 14 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 15 | Nobody want them at twenty pound ? |
| 16 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 18 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 19 | You did n't cry , nobody showed it like that . |
| 20 | But if someb if somebody put them in plain language to me , |
| 21 | His numerous critics will find plenty to amuse them in this volume . |
| 22 | Now nobody help her at this stage . |
| 23 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 24 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 25 | He added : ‘ There is nothing to suggest he in any way misused the weapons . |
| 26 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 27 | Winterthur is Switzerland 's sixth largest town , but none surpasses it in artistic richness . |
| 28 | Someone brushed a hand across him for a gun , but finding none pushed him to one side . |
| 29 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 30 | No one asked me for any comment . |