Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Testimony to this comes from the common agreement of many of the world 's proverbs : ‘ Who knows nothing doubts nothing ’ ( French ) , ‘ The wise are prone to doubt ’ ( Greek ) , or ‘ With great doubts come great understanding ; with little doubts come little understanding ’ ( Chinese ) . |
| 2 | It 's got to the point now where everyone thinks everything we do is just deliberate shit , us causing a disturbance . |
| 3 | London — everyone thinks everyone goes to London . |
| 4 | Right I 'm gon na make a drink , does everyone want one ? |
| 5 | I am happy to repeat the Government 's view that openness is a friend of the nuclear industry and everyone has everything to gain by open discussion and understanding of the complex issues involved . |
| 6 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 7 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 8 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 9 | Everyone has something to contribute to life . |
| 10 | Almost everyone has something against Saddam . |
| 11 | everyone has something they want to do or can do . |
| 12 | ‘ I meant everyone needs someone to love and to love them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure it will be Renata ( her daughter ) next ’ , ‘ Why ca n't I get anything right ? ’ and ‘ No-one wants anything to do with me — and I 'm not surprised . ’ |
| 15 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
| 16 | It was really lovely to see how everyone helped everyone else . |
| 17 | Look , there 's nothing say nothing , you know |
| 18 | Everyone wants everyone else to succeed . |
| 19 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 20 | It was just someone got one |
| 21 | It takes someone to know something . |
| 22 | When we 'd be overtopped with mud and water in the trench there 'd allus be someone say something to make you laugh . |
| 23 | Wo n't someone do something ? ’ |
| 24 | Senses ( b ) and ( c ) however can both be treated in terms of the notion of " passively experiencing " some event , with ( b ) implying on top of that a refusal to stand by passively and let someone do something without intervening . |
| 25 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 26 | How could someone do something like that . |
| 27 | Wh why does n't someone do anything about it ? |
| 28 | So if someone says one add ? |
| 29 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 30 | In ordinary life , if someone says something that you do not understand , you ask him to explain himself more fully . |