Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , but I think P , er , budget review , or somebody needs to have a look at it , if you 've got budget review and you 've got people who , most of the people who were on the old working party know the background there anyway , seems as good a place as any to look at it . |
| 2 | It 's proof that someone 's issued a book to you , yeah . |
| 3 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 4 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 5 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 6 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 7 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 8 | Having successfully manoeuvred an inoffensive farewell , one discovers that one has left a book in the room . |
| 9 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 10 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 12 | You know it 's like , you sometimes you can go a whole game like seventy minutes of a game and no-one 's had a goal scoring chance |
| 13 | So if everyone 's got a gun |
| 14 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 15 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 16 | Erm now if someone says draw a graph of this , Y equals square root of X. Well let's say this way . |
| 17 | We have to assume that , if someone wants to explore a concept or examine an idea , he or she has an intelligent , enquiring mind . |
| 18 | For lenders there is clearly a more desirable proposition in a public house that has a higher beverages or ‘ wet ’ side than a ‘ dry ’ side , because if someone wants to purchase a pub with a high ‘ dry ’ side , and they do not have much catering experience , then their turnover could diminish rapidly . |
| 19 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 20 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 21 | If someone wants to buy a printer or 20 diskettes from us it would be pointless to tell them they 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 22 | If someone wants to have a go I 'll give it to him . |
| 23 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 24 | But the pink-footed looks as if someone has pushed a tennis ball up into the top of a short sock : round head , short neck , with a small beak stuck on . |
| 25 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 26 | If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual . |
| 27 | And here and there you will see hieroglyphs have been erased , if somebody 's got a chisel and there 's a , just a raise a whole block of hieroglyphs , er just there and then and almost always that is Akhenaten 's workmen did it and the hieroglyphs they were erasing was the plural er gods . |
| 28 | Think about training though , if somebody 's got a question to ask what will about sort of something very early on and they do n't get the opportunity to answer you what might happen |
| 29 | ‘ But what if somebody comes to buy a ticket ? ’ |
| 30 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |