Example sentences of "and [indef pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the first attacks and everyone on board had been killed . |
| 2 | Six years ago they attacked my uncle 's prahu , killing him and everyone on board for their cargo . " |
| 3 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 4 | The one who always seemed to have everything and everyone under control ? |
| 5 | I know , I mean er I mean yeah I 've got used to her sort of like criticizing everything and everyone in sight cos I mean that 's all she ever does is to criticize and complain . |
| 6 | He 's just so odd that boy , he just flirts with everything and everyone in sight , do n't you reckon ? |
| 7 | A boy at school had broken his ankle playing football , and everyone in school had autographed his cast . |
| 8 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 9 | I could n't face it , what with the family and everyone from work , but she offered . |
| 10 | Wark , at 35 still a major influence at Ipswich , has faith in fellow Scot Brian McClair and nothing but admiration for youngster Giggs . |
| 11 | While my right hon. and hon. Friends will be talking about priorities for health , no doubt we will hear again and again from Labour about privatisation , privatisation , and nothing but privatisation . |
| 12 | And nothing but darkness lay ahead of them . |
| 13 | Presently that idea is cocaine , and nothing but cocaine . |
| 14 | The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept ; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans . |
| 15 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 16 | So why all this information about the club and nothing about judo ? |
| 17 | Tending and tending , and nothing of repose |
| 18 | She did n't wear Salvation Army uniform in school , but she used to visit a Goodwill centre in Bethnal Green and nothing of note escapes the eager eyed cockney . |
| 19 | Even the ‘ rivers ’ are ‘ shallow ’ in this world but , as Ralegh 's nymph retorts , in reality they ‘ rage , and rocks grow cold ’ and nothing in nature is as picturesque and harmless as Marlowe would wish it to be . |
| 20 | This is being pragmatically run — many stories need someone for radio and someone for Television . |
| 21 | The people who had put her in such a tizzy were a solicitor , a computer analyst and someone in advertising . |
| 22 | Finally we asked very loudly if the store was going broke and somebody within earshot scooted out of a doorway to see what the ruckus was about . |
| 23 | Great brother Jim gave him fresh water and plenty of oats . |
| 24 | If this is the case , then you may well want lots of hardy infantry and plenty of missile troops to scythe down the opposition as they advance on your army . |
| 25 | Old photographs , such as those in the Sprott Collection , show wide , uncluttered streets , no traffic save for a few carts and other horse-drawn vehicles and plenty of space for people to stand . |
| 26 | With steady winds and plenty of space , Porto Heli is uniquely suitable for novices to learn by doing , and the perfect place for intermediates to develop performance sailing skills . |
| 27 | To grow a passion flower for edible fruits , you must sow the seed from a shop-brought passion fruit , but it will need the warmth of a greenhouse or conservatory and plenty of space . |
| 28 | So we d were n't worried about that , a nice big van we 'd got , it was a big one so we 'd got plenty of room thirteen foot high it was , nice size van for the job , and we filled it up and plenty of space left over , off we went . |
| 29 | For the flood to yield up its riches , two things were required : a competent engineer and plenty of capital . |
| 30 | Today , thanks to the recent finds in Antarctica , the Macibini stone is no longer unique , and plenty of polymict eucrite samples are available to scientists around the world who are examining the genetic relationships between these and other meteorites . |