Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 Erm the speed with which we dealt with item one is encouraging or rather it 's somebody might be but item two again maybe if proposals which perhaps er a little controversy .
2 The Old Testament idea of the spirit of God breathing into human beings something of his own life , or sometimes it 's something giving a extra quality of living .
3 You must want something , or else you are nothing .
4 I mean , everybody took loads of everything in those days but if you have an incredible tour schedule and you can find a way of having extra energy , which you can get with cocaine , you overdo it if you have n't ever had it before in such huge quantities , and you 're that big , and girls come to the dressing room afterwards , and everybody gives you free packets , and suddenly you 're everybody 's pal .
5 The Press Council strongly encourages anonymity in sexual assault cases , although unlike rape cases they are not covered by the 1976 Act , and so it is something of a test of the voluntary code .
6 And anyway it 's none of their business .
7 ‘ Sometimes I know he wants me to do something and usually it 's something I do n't particularly want to do .
8 He was , after all , a legend in his own lifetime , and now he was one more dead hero .
9 See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’
10 He walked quickly down the road and then it was something about him not being late cos he had to a contract .
11 And indeed it was something very different — the bones of a human skeleton , a few pieces of clothing still on it .
12 And he was in awe before the sense that its power was in him , and yet he was nothing ; and yet again , perhaps , if only he knew how , that power might help him …
13 And yet I am one who hopes to care
14 The calculus on which he based his explanation was , therefore , a neat and self-fulfilling testimony to the record of the LLP ; and yet it is one that has survived intact .
15 you can only learn I think from your , from your experience and yet it 's something every body has to go through
16 That that 's why the last part of the Labour motion is saying , we wish it actually to begin to look and consider it and again it 's something really which the the panel , erm or indeed the sub Committee if appropriate
17 We do n't know how he died , but presumably it was something he ate or drank .
18 Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm .
19 I have not discussed that with the others yet but perhaps it is something to put on the agenda for the future .
20 I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her .
21 This is a traditional and most unfortunate highland practice but nevertheless it is something that is currently accepted by the church and I would hope that the convenor in drawing up , or the panel in drawing up the leaflet , would take account of this .
22 Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things .
23 I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time .
24 I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex .
25 But now we are one again he 'll expect his own personal maid , cook and bottle-washer .
26 I still do n't believe in God but now I 'm something of a cross between a Buddhist and a Quaker with pantheist leanings . ’
27 I 've played many neck-through-body instruments before and sustain has generally been very good , but here it is nothing short of remarkable .
28 And I think it would actually need , if it 's going to be taken on board , somebody appointed to look at this , or it be put in somebody 's job brief and I would have thought ideally that it would be placed with the community worker , and I do n't know quite how we 're placed for community workers in East Oxford , but maybe it 's something we could put to that department .
29 They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution .
30 I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it .
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