Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
2 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
3 | for example , that if a sporting event ends prematurely because of bad weather , or of attendance falls short of anticipated levels , some or all of the casual labour force can be discharged and workers need not be carried when there is nothing for them to do . |
4 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
5 | ‘ That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness . |
6 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
7 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
8 | There was nothing for him to say . |
9 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
10 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
11 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
12 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
13 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
14 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
15 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
16 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
17 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
18 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
19 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
20 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
21 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
22 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
23 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
24 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
25 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
26 | Nothing for me to do here really is there ? |
27 | There was nothing for me going on down there , so I come to Nottingham to give it a try . |
28 | There is nothing for me to add ’ . |
29 | If you do n't get it , there 's nothing for me to add . |
30 | The church has nothing for which to apologize . |