Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
2 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
3 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
4 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
5 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
6 | " Everyone for the gentleman 's photograph , " he shouted , lining the elderly people against the side of the bus . |
7 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
8 | Join everyone for the party of the year in the Daten Sports and Social Club on Wednesday , 31st March . |
9 | Even so , I have noticed that the feeding pattern still follows the usual course in that you catch barbel for a spell ( maybe only one or two fish ) then nothing for a spell , and so on . |
10 | ‘ No — nothing for a day or two . ’ |
11 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
12 | Then nothing for a bit , then perhaps ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ , or , ‘ Before Cabinet on Thursday … |
13 | I know you get nothing for a tenner but if you spend hundred pound you can |
14 | do nothing for a fortnight of course . |
15 | ‘ Sophie said nothing for a minute and then she said : ‘ On a plane to see Lizzie ’ . ’ |
16 | He said nothing for a minute . |
17 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
18 | Joe said nothing for a minute then he said in a low voice , ‘ It 's quite settled then , Sarah and Terry ? |
19 | The lawyer said nothing for a minute . |
20 | Inspector Aziz looked at her , and said nothing for a minute . |
21 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
22 | Wayne said nothing for a while , and Pete allowed his attention to wander down the inventory list ; his eyebrows raised at the mention of a waterbed , a hi-fi system and a video hookup in the after stateroom . |
23 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
24 | She said nothing for a while . |
25 | When he finished , the DDI sat back and said nothing for a while , just digested it . |
26 | They said nothing for a while ; she controlling her emotions while he gathered his strength . |
27 | Wycliffe said nothing for a while but continued with his study of the cheque stubs . |
28 | Stone said nothing for a moment , staring at the CI5 man , perhaps still not sure of whether or not he was doing the right thing . |
29 | In English , it has been shown that an unmarked theme is one that signals the mood of the clause : in declarative clauses the unmarked theme is the subject ( Jane said nothing for a moment ) ; in interrogative clauses it is the wh-word ( What did Jane say ? ) , or the auxiliary in the case of polar questions ( Did Jane say anything ? ) ; in imperative clauses it is the verb ( Say something ) . |
30 | I said nothing for a moment ; there had seemed to be some special emphasis on the last sentence . |