Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On television last night there was some waffling about nothing and complaining they had n't been told . |
| 2 | But it should be equal for everyone and based purely on ability . |
| 3 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 4 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 5 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 6 | I do n't like the idea of getting up in front of everyone and saying : ‘ I 'm a junkie . |
| 7 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 8 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 9 | Subjectivism in faith makes something out of nothing and turns fiction into fact . |
| 10 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 11 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 12 | Tom Zaremba took photos of everything and told anecdotes about Morocco and laughed and poured more champagne . |
| 13 | But having just banked our rather substantial cheque for the start-up , we looked at the price of everything and thought ‘ that 's a bit expensive ’ and bought nothing . |
| 14 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 15 | She got them out one of everything and showed them all the different fish . |
| 16 | He felt assailed by the bright brashness of everything and missed the soft darkness of the cottage . |
| 17 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 18 | He was trying to convince him of something and kept at it . |
| 19 | The convention of showing a part of something and implying the whole . |
| 20 | By combining a fuller investigation of a text 's history with an awareness of new theoretical investigations into the structures of both culture and discourse , New Historicism has directly confronted the problem of how literature ‘ says something of something and says it to somebody ’ ( to recall Geertz 's formulation ) . |
| 21 | At any time you can take too much or too little of something and die . |
| 22 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 23 | The man takes a plastic tub of something and sticks his hands in it . |
| 24 | As she was opening the door , she thought of something and turned round . |
| 25 | Why is n't these doctors that are condemning it and the pharmacists and so forth , together on a panel of something and expose it on T V or in the press that they condemn it . |
| 26 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 27 | Do not be afraid of anyone and do not worry . |
| 28 | were the judges Mrs got the highest number of lots and won the cup is it |
| 29 | ‘ It 's hard ’ , said one Probation Officer , ; ‘ we 're not actually part of anything and have to operate in a sort of no man 's land . ’ |
| 30 | Unless they catch you unawares and rush you immediately , the gang will try to surround or corner you , so make sure that your back is against something and avoid corners . |