Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From eleven in the morning until four in the afternoon nothing stirred . |
| 2 | ‘ Scot nothing to do with you ! ’ |
| 3 | Oh mum me do it , me are gon na do that and that in a minute |
| 4 | ‘ In case everyone has forgotten , I 'm still here , ’ Paula interjected . |
| 5 | This is a proof ( never to be too often proved ) that when one has thought out a story nothing remains but the labour . |
| 6 | Me feel me want progress me want progress move fasta |
| 7 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 8 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 9 | However , after a brief respite at Ossett everyone agreed to continue . |
| 10 | But on the ramparts nothing appeared ; when the Collector tried transplanting weeds , bushes , vegetation of every kind , within a few hours everything had wilted . |
| 11 | In the great majority of those cases nothing goes wrong . |
| 12 | and er it would of been impossible to rest your feet on the rail them performing the most uncomfortable |
| 13 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 14 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 15 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 16 | There was a new Secondary there , a fine building everyone said , with playing fields and a pool and modern laboratories but it sounded , to Carrie , very ordinary and dull . |
| 17 | When Matron came in that afternoon everyone stood up and shouted ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 18 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
| 19 | Of course nothing happened . |
| 20 | This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course they are , but that bas nothing to do with it . |
| 22 | Those meetings have n't taken place but of course no-one believes it because mis-information is much more exciting than the truth . |
| 23 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 24 | Good times nor bad times nothing lasts . ’ |
| 25 | One may argue that by moving the magnetic field nothing has changed at the position of the wire . |
| 26 | After five minutes nothing had happened . |
| 27 | We all sat in dead silence waiting for Helen to get the urge , but for about ten minutes nothing happened , just heavy breathing all round . |
| 28 | For one or two minutes nothing happened . |
| 29 | For twenty minutes nothing happened . |
| 30 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |