Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government . |
| 2 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 3 | Karen would n't commit adultery behind Dennis 's back , but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose . |
| 4 | Nothing that enlightened her . |
| 5 | Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception . |
| 6 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 7 | Chris said it might have been somebody that knew you like , was banging on the door . |
| 8 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 9 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 10 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 11 | I finished some games in absolute agony , but said nothing and kept it to myself . |
| 12 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 13 | ‘ Coming back to Sara : she went to post a letter , took a little walk in the rain , heard nothing , saw nothing and said nothing about it because she felt silly — is that it , sir ? ’ |
| 14 | If the eagle did nothing and waited they would not get him . |
| 15 | Rigorists rejected compromise : they would surrender nothing and understood it to be of the essence of their Christian allegiance that every Lord 's day they would unfailingly celebrate the eucharist . |
| 16 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 17 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 18 | He said nothing and closed his eyes . |
| 19 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 20 | welcomed everyone and said it was gratifying that so many had made the effort to be present and she extended a special welcome to the representatives from Norfolk , North West and the West country . |
| 21 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 22 | Ellen slapped Bernard back , and the next day , after a meeting of all parties at which the local Director of Social Services tried to please everyone and offended everybody , lingered after the meeting , provocative and yawning amongst the filing cabinets , until he caught on , locked the door , and embraced her thankfully . |
| 23 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 24 | He should fear nothing but put his hopes in the sender who wished him well . |
| 25 | if dad 's going to or something or drove something down |
| 26 | Equally , he was never sure if he had missed something or escaped it . |
| 27 | ‘ We think Brian might have seen something or found something out that someone was afraid he would come home and tell us , ’ said Mr McDermott . |
| 28 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 29 | Here she was , sounding , even to her own ears , like a puritanical Swiss burgher , imposing a moral code on Sylvie that had never been hers ; forcing her into a mould which was alien to everything that made her Sylvie . |
| 30 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |