Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ .
2	This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine !
3	But it was difficult to see why they would , given that everyone seemed to agree with the current policy .
4	After that everyone went to bed , but nobody slept .
5	So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast .
6	I expect that everyone came to church here , this evening because they knew that it was a communion Sunday , and the sacrament of Holy Communion would be celebrated here this evening .
7	I think that everyone seems to pass the buck , I mean the parents think , oh they 'll learn it at school and the teachers think , oh co they should be learning it from their parents , and yo , you never learn it from anyone just from your friends .
8	Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical .
9	After that everyone tried to help Karen .
10	Erm I wanted to ask erm I ga I assume that everyone has read through the bumf that I 've been merrily distributing .
11	so I think they recognize that everyone has homosexual
12	and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period .
13	Parents and residents were given the impression that something was going to be done and were very dismayed to find that nothing has been done yet , hence this petition .
14	Somewhere inside the building , an electric bell shrilled but after that nothing happened .
15	Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all .
16	Immediately some commentators claimed that she and Prince Charles had succeeded in mending their marriage , while others sniffed cynically that in private nothing had changed .
17	It also explains his failure in that no-one knew which was his real priority .
18	It 's a shame really that no-one has come forward to apply for it , because it 's such a lovely , wonderful bungalow .
19	It' ; s possible someone knows who did this .
20	I mean I know that someone got erm suspended for
21	‘ That someone copied them , ’ he said .
22	That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview .
23	That someone had come from abroad — be it Calais , Cairo , Boulogne or Bucharest : they scarcely distinguished .
24	She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk !
25	‘ That someone crossed the frozen moat and , using the steps in the wall , climbed up to Sir Ralph 's chamber .
26	Did n't that someone to do the the the homework for them .
27	That someone reached the landing and appeared at the open door of the bedroom .
28	He 's quite pleased to think that someone 's given him a hole to get into .
29	How do you know that someone 's burgled something .
30	What is to be understood as happening is perhaps that , given that someone wants to be Christian , she as a feminist will look for what female representation there may be in the religion , whether or not this is fully satisfactory .

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