Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 2 | ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ is a special time of prayer and sharing , of offering one 's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who , by suffering , dying and rising , achieved the salvation of mankind . |
| 3 | In vain has Adrienne written asking for news from the North-East to be included in the last two issues : for we had nothing to report beyond our puny struggles against the mighty Aerobics phenomenon . |
| 4 | ‘ I put it to you , ’ some old goat would bleat from under his wig , ‘ that these scheming , unprincipled charlatans , stopping at nothing to come by their ill-gotten gains , forged the very hand of a peer of the realm in a dastardly conspiracy to frustrate the worthy efforts of their local benefactor . ’ |
| 5 | Speaking through his secretary , the Right Reverend Peter Ball says he would like everyone to know of his immense gratitude for their overwhelming support . |
| 6 | Before long Gaveston was given the hitherto exclusively royal title of earl of Cornwall , an affront to the established councillors and nobility which he did nothing to palliate by his swaggering arrogance , especially at Edward 's coronation in which he played a leading role ; just as outrageous were the lands and revenues which went with titles , office and power . |
| 7 | If they want someone to work on their own initiative , don ‘ t be afraid to tell them in your application that you can do that . |
| 8 | But she thought that she would have been glad of someone to talk about her new plans with , all the same . |
| 9 | Pay someone to look after her full-time ? ’ |
| 10 | They had no land of their own , they had nothing to harvest of their own , they could only go and harvest , and glean what the harvesters left behind . |
| 11 | ‘ If there are riot police , ’ he says , ‘ then vigilantes will appear , because there will always be somebody to see to it that crime is never given a free rein . ’ |
| 12 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 13 | There was plenty to do on your own doorstep — to look further was a cop-out . |
| 14 | now we are down that far , so I did everything so I 've nothing to do for them this morning , just sit there |
| 15 | It was the temple for everyone who wanted to be involved in something that had nothing to do with what most people thought was ‘ happening ’ in that part of the seventies . |
| 16 | ‘ Said it was nothing to do with her professional integrity , just that she was pursuing the spying line a bit too vigorously . |
| 17 | These are absent , saved for conversation in restaurants where she talks with great animation , but on a plane which seems to have nothing to do with her sexual avidity . |
| 18 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 19 | Paprika 's is a tiny restaurant whose walls are covered in extinct record covers ( Julie London , Vicky Carr ) , menus which have nothing to do with its own , candid photographs of mouths and patrons eating . |
| 20 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 21 | But White says that row has nothing to do with his vehement stance on the Sahabi bone issue . |
| 22 | He was bewitched , she could see that ; changed into something else , as Fand and the other Women had been — something that had nothing to do with his real self . |
| 23 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 24 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 25 | ‘ Nothing to do with you that is . |
| 26 | ‘ I told you , it 's nothing to do with you any more , Kokos . |
| 27 | Discretion has nothing to do with it any more . " |
| 28 | It should be emphasized that this has nothing to do with our normal perception of color ; quarks are far too small to be seen by visible light . |
| 29 | It 's true decommissioning will cost Scottish Nuclear £1.6 billion , but much of this has got nothing to do with our own power stations . |
| 30 | The real world of ‘ scientism ’ which could be characterised in terms having nothing to do with our particular ways of responding to it is a myth , with which it is quite inept to confuse the real ‘ real world ’ . |