Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 3 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 4 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 5 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 6 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 7 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 10 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 11 | still a human error even though you know how to do it , and we can not guarantee that you 'll do it so it , so it is , the , it is very important that nobody takes anything off the shelf automatically assume |
| 12 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 13 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 14 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 15 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
| 16 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 17 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 18 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 19 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 20 | A special ‘ Old Town Walk ’ leaflet is available to ensure that you miss none of the highlights ! |
| 21 | And I 'm going to point out two or three things why it 's absolutely essential that you tell everything over the phone . |
| 22 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 23 | ‘ We have reason to believe that you recently broke into Taigh na Tuir , the house belonging to Mr Hamilton here , and that you know something of the whereabouts of two valuable guns . ’ |
| 24 | Reworking the question into a related generalisation , on the other hand , shows that you understand something of the complexities it contains . |
| 25 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 26 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 27 | That we close everything on the on the phone . |
| 28 | And who knows what may come of Labour 's long-overdue admission that we need someone in the cabinet specifically to fight our corner ? |
| 29 | But with the sales of that are going on , there are needs to move tenants around and make alterations to boundaries and buildings , as we split up holdings , so I would say Chair , it 's essential that we have something in the kitty to do this work , I mean , it 's obviously far exceeded by the capital receipts that the revue is generating . |
| 30 | We tend to view ourselves as physical beings only and to deny that we have anything in the way of a soul or spirit . |