Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | He insisted on calling me the Professor of French Letters — introduced me to everyone as that in the pubs . |
2 | It came to him as a Revelation , descending upon his mind in all its complex glory , that there was a man in the City in need of his help , and that the man — his name did n't matter-would free everyone as this awakening had freed him . |
3 | That is a great credit to the improved quality of our service , and to the commitment of all our staff , and I pay tribute to everyone for that . |
4 | Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is . |
5 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
6 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
7 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
8 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
9 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
10 | And twenty five pounds worth of Marks and Spencer vouchers for nothing for that . |
11 | You do n't get nothing for that . |
12 | And nobody 's gon na give me nothing for that are they ? |
13 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
14 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
15 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
16 | But , I thought that now that the M S has acquired that bus and it 's going to be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
17 | well it is n't even a priority , it 's nothing , they wo n't get the money , th they wo n't pay for walk to go swimming but I thought that now that the has acquired that bus and it 's gon na be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
18 | When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply . |
19 | The widespread promotion of such asset liberating schemes would , of course , do nothing for those without a house to sell or realize the capital value of . |
20 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman on trade , industry and employment , Malcolm Bruce , attacked the Chancellor 's statement as a Budget of despair and disappointment which provided a little relief for the unemployed and nothing for those attempting to counter the effects of the recession . |
21 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
22 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
23 | ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm ! |
24 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
25 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
26 | ‘ There was nothing about that in your statement . ’ |
27 | ‘ I know nothing about that , ’ Peace countered sharply . |
28 | I knew nothing about that deal until I played some recent demos of the things that eventually became ‘ Workbook ’ . |
29 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
30 | She knows nothing about that . |