Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scot nothing to do with you ! ’ |
| 2 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 3 | This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course they are , but that bas nothing to do with it . |
| 5 | 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ . |
| 6 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’ |
| 8 | Of course everyone knows to which general she belongs , but it is her eyes , her ears and her discernment that have to be relied upon . |
| 9 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 10 | Most people could recite its slogan , ‘ Every seven minutes someone passes with BSM ’ ( now in fact it is more like every six minutes ) . |
| 11 | No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night ! |
| 12 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 13 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 14 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 15 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 16 | And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people . |
| 17 | As an in-house lawyer , my ‘ clients ’ are the company personnel I deal with regularly . |
| 18 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 19 | Up in the stand someone giggled with nervous tension . |
| 20 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 21 | But in any divorce settlement I know with myself |
| 22 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 23 | Such reasons I dubbed above ‘ dependent reasons ’ . |
| 24 | Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ? |
| 25 | For these reasons I submit to your Lordships that the remittances are income subject to income tax . |
| 26 | A personal example : my rugby loyalty lies with Hawick , but for career reasons I live in Edinburgh , and I rarely have the opportunity to attend home games , so club membership is n't really worth considering . |
| 27 | the reasons I think for doing it . |
| 28 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 30 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |