Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 2 | Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain . |
| 3 | He said nothing for almost the whole of the twenty minutes , until he got up and carried his plate and cup to the sink and then said , as he left the room , ‘ I see . |
| 4 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 5 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 6 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 7 | Although useful information , this demonstrates nothing about either the quality or quantity of the services they provide . |
| 8 | He had not said , Frankly , Peter , you are not up to being Archdeacon , he had instead emphasized the need for someone from outside the diocese , for someone with ecumenical experience in urban work , for someone accustomed to ministerial care . |
| 9 | Someone with accountancy training can be extremely helpful in the preparation of Schedules of Special Damages and if your department is large enough to need some form of dedicated management , this can often best be provided by someone from outside the law as solicitors do not make the best managers . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't feel that it could be someone from inside the Lodge , do you ? ’ |
| 11 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
| 12 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 13 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 15 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
| 16 | Each one of perhaps a group of four should prepare a brief summary of an article of general interest . |
| 17 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 18 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 19 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 20 | the important thing in the last two years , everything has to be in , as I say it 's not true to say everything but quite a lot of things have been in , so both those are , are the . |
| 21 | Our brokers knew nothing until 4pm the day before our announcement . |
| 22 | It does rather spoil the fun , though , when the spoof is too obvious — the one in the 31 March issue was so obviously naive and reckless in its content that it could not possibly have fooled anybody with even a grain of sense . |
| 23 | The tribunal itself need do nothing to further the appeal , other than making available the notes of evidence and the chairman 's record of the hearing . |
| 24 | He says it 's better to live in a town without too many cars with everybody with just a bike . |
| 25 | In the UK this is fine , but if anyone from outside the UK is reading this , be careful you get the spirit that does not contain water . |
| 26 | You must be careful not to unconsciously touch anything with even the gloves . |