Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My fathers and grandfathers all worked in the slate , they seen nothing only slate .
2 So I said yeah I can do so he said bring your van down , so I never said nothing so Bob said , got any like your dad had
3 He mixed her a dry martini from a collection of decanters on a silver tray — nothing so arriviste as a drinks cupboard or private bar — set on a small table .
4 Secretary Bill Jones said : ‘ We are after someone about 6ft tall who is good looking and very well spoken .
5 Someone else Melbourne
6 If , however , Bernard was having an argument with someone else Laura might then join battle in full support of her husband .
7 And then I believe takes someone else supervisor
8 In turn she moved aside to allow someone else room at the counter and found herself standing beside Moran .
9 I , no I , I get the impression that , you know , everyone just everyone just kind of freaked out end of nineteen forty six forty seven and they were just , oh God what are we gon na do now , wh what can we do to get some more support , oh excellent , yeah , let's go for equal distribution , what a great idea and then all of a sudden they think oh no , it 's not , you know , perhaps it 's not such a good idea after all .
10 ‘ Has nobody any ideas ? ’
11 It could do nobody any good .
12 It 's an ill recession that blows nobody any good .
13 My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good !
14 It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact !
15 Lizzie died , quietly and by herself , giving nobody any trouble .
16 So that erm , nobody really kn was the most monotonous job when you had to erm assess literally thousands of students in the end .
17 Then they can if they add a two minute spiel on the end of their introductory keynote thing , saying we have somebody here doing linguistics research , if any of your companies can help them .
18 And you could walk fifty yards down the road and there 'd be somebody else building and you could walk on a say is that the job how much ?
19 danger of sort of like if you 've got ta time like yeah sort of thing somebody else questions ten minutes .
20 It was somebody else Robert who was in there already .
21 No if it 's thirty seconds for you , it 's thirty seconds off somebody else colleague .
22 My lords , save yourselves , there is nothing any man can do there . ’
23 With those last two straws cast upon the water , there was nothing more Manville could do except wait and hope .
24 The only problem for bargain hunters is that there is nothing under £24.50 on the grand wine list — but that 's a first-class Cotes du Rhone from Guigal which is ideal for midday .
25 ‘ It does no-one any good if there is a split between a section of supporters and the club . ’
26 There is almost none below 8,000ft .
27 It appears that he did search for 3-dimensional examples but could find none without divisors of zero .
28 In 26 months since his £300,000 move from Highbury he has made just 18 full appearances — none this season — and has now been handed a free transfer .
29 IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ?
30 Whatever the substance of the case against him , there still remains something fundamentally obscurantist in the demonisation of Saddam .
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