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

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1 My fathers and grandfathers all worked in the slate , they seen nothing only slate .
2 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 .
3 And then I believe takes someone else supervisor
4 In turn she moved aside to allow someone else room at the counter and found herself standing beside Moran .
5 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 .
6 It could do nobody any good .
7 It 's an ill recession that blows nobody any good .
8 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 !
9 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 !
10 Lizzie died , quietly and by herself , giving nobody any trouble .
11 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 .
12 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 ?
13 No if it 's thirty seconds for you , it 's thirty seconds off somebody else colleague .
14 My lords , save yourselves , there is nothing any man can do there . ’
15 ‘ It does no-one any good if there is a split between a section of supporters and the club . ’
16 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 .
17 Whatever the substance of the case against him , there still remains something fundamentally obscurantist in the demonisation of Saddam .
18 The decision , they say , was a board-room one so god knows what that will mean .
19 as if it was something only experience could teach , he advised , ‘ If they have a gun or a knife , whatever you 've got , hand it over .
20 ‘ I used to think it was something only mum came out with .
21 In the fifties and sixties g-force was something only fighter pilots worried about .
22 Parents turn up to see their own children doing something so attendance is bound to fall off if the major parts in the service are always taken by the same one or two children .
23 There is one highly rugose spine-like tentacle scale on each tentacle pore .
24 Everything suddenly fluid again , he wrote .
25 Souness feels James , 22 , is still developing and not yet ready for a high-pressure European tie , where one away goal could be disastrous .
26 something just trauma !
27 Are you having one anyway nan ?
28 Which is the one nearest Cockney 's ?
29 Before you leave , double-check your bag has everything any marathon runner could ever need inside and as you arrive ( calm and collected , having not lost your temper with the public transport system ) do a little stretching and gentle jogging .
30 There was everything any guest could want .
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