Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbourhood Watches is organized er in the , there 's , we have a head coordinator i of each scheme which is er someone that lives in the area . |
| 2 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 3 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 4 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 5 | Oh there 's somebody that lived in the house in |
| 6 | Those members of the British Section delegation who had survived previous ICMs said nothing and waited for the strain to show . |
| 7 | He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons . |
| 8 | They said nothing but listened to the chatter in the restaurant , the clatter of cutlery and tinging of glass . |
| 9 | Creggan said nothing but stared over the grey rolling sea that had given the eagle whom he loved most in the world her name . |
| 10 | Or you can do absolutely nothing but lie in the sun in the garden and tan . |
| 11 | The treatment of slaves … anything and everything that happens from the time of enslavement in Africa through the Middle Passage and the final sales and treatment in bondage . ’ |
| 12 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 13 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 14 | At times , he seemed to have to cope single-handedly with everything that came from the Opposition . |
| 15 | Everything that occurs in the organization is in one way or another idea-handling . |
| 16 | The declared results remind us more readily of the spoiled world of Genesis 3 than those of Genesis 1 or 2 : ‘ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every bird of the air , upon everything that creeps on the ground , and all fish of the sea ’ ( 9.2 ) . |
| 17 | In every isolated basin of the plateau the life led by the common people day after day was as monotonous as the climate and the landscape ; and everything that deviated from the ordinary , everything strange or unforeseen , was regarded as supernatural . |
| 18 | Everything in the sun was old gold ; everything that lay in the shade was blue . |
| 19 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 20 | All right , you might find everything that crawls in the yard an' they might get as far as downstairs here and there , but not up here . |
| 21 | I have to observe and draw everything that belongs to the country life … |
| 22 | This is interesting because Morrissey was referring back to his days spent in hopeless fandom when he practically worshipped everything that moved within the media . |
| 23 | Colt sat at a table outside the café that saw everything that moved in the village . |
| 24 | It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories . |
| 25 | John was unlike anyone Anne knew with his views on everything that happened in the world . |
| 26 | Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins . |
| 27 | He had given a more or less lucid report of everything that happened after the moon rose . |
| 28 | Because everything that appears on the Macintosh screen is treated as a graphic , even the text is handled this way , life is remarkably easy for the desktop publisher . |
| 29 | Everything that occurred in the educational sphere after 1927 was no more than a " clearing-up " operation . |
| 30 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |