Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 2 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 3 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 4 | Such is our penetration of the market that someone somewhere in the world uses an HTFS program to design a heat exchanger every minute of the day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want there to be any half-measures , did n't want to make love to someone just for the sake of it . |
| 6 | Alternatively , you can start a discussion by asking someone just beyond the offender to speak first and then go round the meeting leaving him until last . |
| 7 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 8 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 9 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 10 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 11 | Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic . |
| 12 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 13 | The voice sounded surprisingly strong for someone supposedly in the throes of a heart attack , thought Lindsey , stepping into the suite and only with a real effort stifling an exclamation of amazement . |
| 14 | ‘ Your father thought he recognised someone here in the hotel . ’ |
| 15 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 16 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 17 | If you need to have your gas fire or gas cooker connected when you arrive at your new place , make sure that you tell the gas board that you need someone there on the day . |
| 18 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 19 | My husband feels he ought to have someone else on the side . |
| 20 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 21 | Just as missiles can be guided from aircraft that did not launch them , so jamming can be done by someone else on the bomber 's behalf ; division of labour pays off in battles , too . |
| 22 | It is so much easier to conform to arbitrary rules imposed by someone else on the basis of age . |
| 23 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 24 | ‘ Drop in when you 're passing ’ , they say , but nothing but humiliation faces those who do , and see someone else at the desk that was once their 's and find everyone too busy to chat . |
| 25 | ‘ It is especially useful for them to have someone else at the surgery , not only for reassurance but to add to the discussion , ’ he explains . |
| 26 | yeah and erm she was snogging someone else at the time I think |
| 27 | Often , they simply can not make the ultimate consumer 's choice , which is to vote with their cash and their feet and go to someone else for the service . |
| 28 | And he said if they can get someone else for the run they will . |
| 29 | In giving orders to subordinates , an official will go by the rule book and will blame someone else for the existence of the rules where his decision appears inappropriate . |
| 30 | Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with . |