Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 2 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 3 | Our status and position stand for nothing when compared with patience , tolerance and a willing ear . |
| 4 | On television last night there was some waffling about nothing and complaining they had n't been told . |
| 5 | But it should be equal for everyone and based purely on ability . |
| 6 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 7 | His health record , for someone that does this sort of work , his health is terrible . |
| 8 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 9 | He may have left The Bar accompanied , but you never saw him following anyone , gazing after someone or persuading them to come home with him . |
| 10 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 11 | Maybe her request sounded foolish , but the prospect of facing Robert after everything that had happened between them was disturbing . |
| 12 | ‘ After everything that 's happened , we ca n't stay here . ’ |
| 13 | They were all the more tedious because they were reduced , for all practical purposes , to one question : why , after everything that has been put forward in this court , have you still made no attempt to visit 42b Milvain Street ? |
| 14 | " I was really tired after everything that happened yesterday . " |
| 15 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |
| 16 | Do you think it 's alright for somebody that likes lilac ? |
| 17 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
| 18 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 19 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 20 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 21 | I do n't like the idea of getting up in front of everyone and saying : ‘ I 'm a junkie . |
| 22 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 23 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 24 | Subjectivism in faith makes something out of nothing and turns fiction into fact . |
| 25 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 26 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 27 | In none of these cases can the inanimate subject of help be conceived as relaxing , coming round , getting in ahead of someone or discharging duties . |
| 28 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 29 | Over the past five months , despite everything that has gone wrong with his adventure in Kuwait , he has calmly refused to bow to pressure , whether political , economic or military . |
| 30 | Despite everything that has happened in the interim , the new edition , which includes only minor revisions , is still a thought-provoking and comprehensive primer on the future . |