Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 2 Does it identify everyone or everything in the picture ?
2 er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability .
3 In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it .
4 His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison .
5 Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream .
6 It would be nice to have been able to offload your worries on to someone or something like that .
7 If you just know somebody or somebody or something like you 're probably just looked after
8 He er forgot my comb or summat and something like that , he said I 've forgotten my comb and we might be going out .
9 ‘ And once you 're a tower , nobody but nobody at Mars-U wants to know you .
10 There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue .
11 Nothing and nobody in this programme questioned the medic 's oath with which it began : ‘ I will keep silence as to anything I have seen or heard in the practice of my profession which it would be improper to divulge . ’
12 Westwards from Schiehallion , at the very heart of Scotland , lies Rannoch Moor , a desolate wilderness , 1,000 feet above sea level ; and across the moor , from west to east , like a silver scar , are a series of lochs and rivers offering excellent game fishing ; plenty of space for everyone and plenty of fine wild brown trout .
13 Everyone and everything about the Medau Society gives me a special and warm feeling .
14 On the morning of his departure Mr Slipper wandered about the school shaking hands with everyone and everything in sight .
15 The honours system developed in medieval Britain as a means of maintaining the strict hierarchy necessary for monarchical rule : a place for everyone and everyone in their place .
16 Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers .
17 But the East Germans , deaf to all advice , are lashing out in fury and bitterness , blaming everyone but themselves for their predicament .
18 From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length .
19 He will examine more confidently his own intuition and hope , that there is Something or Somebody at work behind the scenes in all religions .
20 It is important to place something or someone on the point of rock between the two entrances .
21 Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) .
22 ‘ There 's something or someone in that damn barn .
23 Something or someone behind her did n't seem to care how much noise they were making .
24 ‘ Oliver Craddock said last year , ‘ There will be a removal of something or someone around May 25th . ’
25 Erm , no just to kind of or the wee one or something like this , aye , .
26 Everything that someone like Toni does , Dannii is pulling in another direction .
27 ‘ Obviously , this was something that everybody in Washington knew about ’ , said poor Fernandez , ‘ and here I was , thinking I had a real secret . ’
28 I think that this is something that we as Christians should be aware of and , if possible , we ought to be available to help keen ex-offenders reintegrate into society .
29 All these moves will help , but there is something that we as individuals can do — if we want to .
30 That will mean an enormous shift in the centre of gravity in Europe towards the north — something that we in Britain should heartily welcome , because on many issues , our approach , or at least , that of Labour Members , has much in common with the countries of northern Europe .
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