Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether we 're laughing , having a row with someone or feeling very anxious , the bodily responses are much the same . |
| 2 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 3 | Can you not start with being in love with someone and end up by loving them ? |
| 4 | Because you do n't just suddenly go in give communion to someone and walk away again do you ? |
| 5 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 6 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 7 | But there there was n't , mm , well there was nothing that seemed immediately er relevant I must say , but |
| 8 | Genscher recalled that the decision embodied in the treaty was a difficult one for all Germans , particularly the millions who had been expelled from their homes in the area annexed to Poland , but that the treaty surrendered nothing that had not been lost long ago . |
| 9 | The answer to that was , nothing that had n't happened already . |
| 10 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 11 | The answer regarding the glass would probably have to be , nothing that lay immediately to hand . |
| 12 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 13 | Kevin and I had a bit of a scuffle , but it was nothing that did n't happen all over the park and certainly nothing to warrant our marching orders . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing that has n't happened before , Father , ’ Ellie replied , almost as wearily , but still refusing to look up . |
| 15 | I even sat on the local erm committee wi with the police authority , you know , and er we 've got all sorts of promises but nothing that has ever materialized . |
| 16 | As history , nothing that happened here yesterday was ever likely to match the events of Friday , but as entertainers , the Indian batsmen generally hold their own . |
| 17 | Bainbridge L. V. ’ had done it , and nothing that happened now — absolutely nothing -would be half as bad as that first terrifying signal . |
| 18 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 19 | Thanks to everyone that wrote in ! |
| 20 | Erm , your , I think it was Dwayne or was it , it 's either Dwayne , or erm , er Bob knocked a glass over , and er , Jane was like erm , trying to like , she was like going Edward move away , I 'm trying to sh I 'm trying , look , I 'm trying to stop people dancing round here , and like , these , all this , this er , glass on the floor , right , Jane was standing there going like this , dancing round all this glass , and like she was going like this , and everyone that walked past , she was going , broken glass and she was saying , and she was , she kept on going broken glass , they done it . |
| 21 | ‘ I see everyone that comes in but few of them are right , ’ says Sarah . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You need to do nothing except stand there and sing your numbers . |
| 24 | Ever since you left SIS , you 've done nothing except mope around and complain . |
| 25 | She could do nothing except cry out . |
| 26 | I do nothing except work here , go to lectures and study . ’ |
| 27 | Search out somebody that talks slowly , and deliberately have a slow conversation . |
| 28 | For somebody that had never been in sales before you remember a lot from the course |
| 29 | The plant is not somebody that sits there and grows |
| 30 | Hypertension , when you are , you know somebody that gets very sort of strung out by things , and you , then you sort of , you . |