Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 2 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 3 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 4 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 5 | Erm again I mean I 'm happy to give that if there 's someone actually living in Bishop who wants it but erm I 've got erm some someone who lives there wanted me to stand in . |
| 6 | These days , everyone just sits in front of the box for entertainment . |
| 7 | Cocooned in its Quadripartite Status , Berlin does nobody any harm at present . |
| 8 | Would somebody please propose in accordance with standing orders that we should extend our proceedings beyond ten thirty . |
| 9 | Since we 've privatized all the power generators and the British Gas nobody even talks about conservation any more . |
| 10 | Nobody even complained of stomach ache . |
| 11 | And er , last time I I get in touch , me mum told me , turned round and says to me , I do n't want any more mum , I says why , he says , oh she wo n't let me have pillow and then I then I think if summat else brought to light , I kill her |
| 12 | As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension . |
| 13 | Is somebody actually coming to band practice ? |
| 14 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 15 | Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back . |
| 16 | For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person . |
| 17 | This extremely lazy lifestyle was one long yawn from dawn to dusk . |
| 18 | When reading through church magazines it seems it is one long appeal for cash , even until the present with appeals for the heating , eradication of deathwatch beetle and the most recent , for tiles for the church roof . |
| 19 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 20 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 21 | In 1847 , during the famine in Ireland , Sutton sent over seeds of turnips , cabbages , and other vegetables to be used as possible alternatives to the diseased potatoes , and he experimented with new varieties of potato to find one better suited to cold , damp climates . |
| 22 | Second , of all the families of doubt this is probably the one best helped by reading . |
| 23 | The advent of Dutch William in 1688 may have brought a Protestant ruler , but it brought one already embroiled in war with Louis XIV , and ended a period in which the offshore island had played small part in the struggles of continental Europe . |
| 24 | Since the dual task paradigm is the one normally considered in relationship to Easterbrook 's hypothesis it should be noted that at least one alternative paradigm , perceptual dominance , produces completely contrary results , in non-aroused conditions central stimuli dominate attention while with mild arousal peripheral stimuli dominate ( Shapiro , Egerman & Klein , 1984 ; Shapiro & Johnson , 1987 ; Johnson & Shapiro , 1989 ; Shapiro & Lim , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 26 | To be honest , I kinda like that loose , gliding feel , but when you 're getting everything totally nailed to perfection — the drums , the bass , the rhythms and the lead — the songs just have a ‘ snap ’ to them . ’ |
| 27 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |
| 28 | And still there is something more needed in order to train a bird . |
| 29 | Everything still centres on Air Cushioning and is likely to do so in the future . |
| 30 | However , we have looked at the men who operate outside the Premier 's direct influence , at the men whose phone calls no one ever puts on hold . |