Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long .
2 You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total .
3 Constance said nothing but walked back into the kitchen , where she lifted the lid off the soup and stood staring at it .
4 Well it was just a a guild for women who could take their knitting and have a cup of tea and discuss everything that went on in the Cooperative , you know .
5 The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however .
6 ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given .
7 Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy .
8 She told me she takes an interest in everything that goes on in the house , and that the party line was a great help to her .
9 Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary .
10 Oh I like everything that goes off with a bang , Jane !
11 Therefore we er we needed to do something that stands out from the crowd if you like to bring this to people 's attention .
12 ( Something that arises out of the fact that Christianity is a historical religion in which there is a belief in revelation , so that the literature which tells of this revelation is a literature apart . )
13 Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths .
14 One that goes down on the floor !
15 On the road , however , in regular use , the Corrado VR6 is the one that stands out in the driver 's mind as the quickest , most comfortable , most civilised and most user-friendly of all .
16 But , before she could really get under way , from one side of the church , the one that leads out to the dustbins , came a group of three or four people one of whom I recognized as Sheldon
17 This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes .
18 He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme .
19 The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search .
20 Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves .
21 " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . "
22 Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it .
23 Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster .
24 Fleury tripped over something and sat down on the floor while the sepoy worked his shoulders a little to loosen himself up for a swipe .
25 I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one .
26 During breakfast , when the guest left his room key and tag unattended at the table the criminal replaced the room key with a false one and went up to the room to complete his business undisturbed .
27 Erm , twenty-two two the recommendations not yet dealt with , the first is the review of the County Farms estate , and I will move paragraph nine one , that is to say the recommendation of the property services sub-committee okay , here we are , which is a recommendation to this committee to adopt option one as set out in the submitted report namely to maintain the County Farms estate at around it 's present size , and to manage it in accordance with the nineteen eighty-eight review of the estate .
28 ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’
29 So you , you went sort of back the other way and alright it was , it was okay and , and er and there was no problems there because any , anything that came up with the C C Q you , you o you answered the questions there and went through .
30 At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards .
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