Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they had less than nothing to lose she felt an ancient pugnacity stirring within her . |
| 2 | Everyone respected him . |
| 3 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 4 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 5 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 6 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |
| 7 | Testimony to this comes from the common agreement of many of the world 's proverbs : ‘ Who knows nothing doubts nothing ’ ( French ) , ‘ The wise are prone to doubt ’ ( Greek ) , or ‘ With great doubts come great understanding ; with little doubts come little understanding ’ ( Chinese ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , everyone envied her . |
| 9 | They went back to the Franz Joseph together — she liked everyone to see them walking off together when the performance was over . |
| 10 | Marie 's so pretty and lovely , I want everyone to see us , so they 'll say how grown up and lucky I am to have such a lovely girlfriend . |
| 11 | Blue suited her and she 'd worn her pearl and diamond brooch because he wanted everyone to see it . |
| 12 | Nor does anyone else , thought Sara ; why does everyone think they 're so unusual because they never forget a face ? |
| 13 | Why does everyone think I 'm food ! |
| 14 | Why did everyone think she could n't cope with hurt ? |
| 15 | I presume your next unhappy task will be to inform Madame Gebrec that you have found nothing to support her contention ? ’ |
| 16 | There was nothing to support it , no face at a window , no movement of a curtain , but when Mr Hollins knocked on the front door it opened immediately . |
| 17 | ‘ The exemption , ’ it has been said , ‘ has nothing to support it . ’ |
| 18 | Instead of complying with this order , the government ‘ distilled the specific accusations ’ it had identified in Aviv 's report and instructed each of the Federal agencies to respond to that ‘ distillation ’ with declarations that there was nothing to support it . |
| 19 | Such a dating , however , runs contrary to the other accounts of Molla Fenari 's trip to Egypt and has little or nothing to support it . |
| 20 | Nothing seems to have changed and the Government is doing nothing to support us . ’ |
| 21 | And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods . |
| 22 | Whenever I did succeed in preparing a family meal , I insisted that everyone eat whatever was placed on her/his plate . |
| 23 | Half blind with tears , I fly past Lucky who growls , everyone HATES me . |
| 24 | ‘ It does if everyone hates him , does n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | There 's a band called Moby Dick and everyone hates them ‘ cost they sound like a fucked up version of Creedence . |
| 26 | Everyone hates them . |
| 27 | Dad everyone hates you . |
| 28 | Hoped I would do nothing to compel him to shake hands with the murderers of his relatives . |
| 29 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |