Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning when they got together everyone had got a model . |
| 2 | Apparently someone had taken a piece of wood for the fire . |
| 3 | So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe . |
| 4 | So anybody wants to have a look at these says it 's not viable . |
| 5 | This month 's Keanu story : the studly one has started a band . |
| 6 | If a fuze went out there was always someone prepared to force a metal pricker down through the packing into the dynamite in the hope of inserting a fresh capped fuze , even though inadvertently piercing the thin copper detonator might mean death or mutilation . |
| 7 | Therefore , technically somebody had stolen a fertility clinic . |
| 8 | When in 92 B.C. somebody tried to establish a school of eloquence in Latin — presumably to serve some popularis cause — the censors of the day were firmly against it ; they declared themselves in favour of Greek , as against Latin , rhetoric ( Suet . |
| 9 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 10 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 11 | There must be thousands of copies out there , surely someone 's got a couple they 've finished with . |
| 12 | The people who belong to the underground all the time are very few , but almost everyone had spent a season there . |
| 13 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |
| 14 | If a garden design is turned at an angle to the boundaries then one helps to create a feeling of greater space by using those longer lines . |
| 15 | Sometimes one wants to delegate a task to , for example , a supervisor , who is in turn responsible to a line manager . |
| 16 | Kingsley exclaimed , ‘ How one does love a girl in a consumption ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Having been a serving officer I know when someone 's had a drink . |
| 18 | There are times when something happens to raise an issue high in the public consciousness — as Cleveland did child sex abuse — but the person responsible pays the price . |
| 19 | By the first Friday , I had either worked , or been on-call for thirty hours , and I was beginning to wonder why anyone wanted to become a doctor , for I was extremely tired , and nothing of any real interest had yet happened . |