Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Never a week goes by but you get something you have never faced before , or something comes in a fashion you have not seen before , so there are plenty of challenges . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I I 'd like to go back to that very traditional Hogmanay , I mean , I think that Hogmanay is very important , not the the Hogmanay that we have now where everybody gathers round a T V but it was very much erm like a I always think Hogmanay at my granny 's , as do er , most of the people in in th the mining area , actually her house was a focus . |
| 4 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 5 | Hopkins went on to say that nobody buys from a clown . |
| 6 | By then the market place accommodated seven annual fairs ( three for horses and four for cattle , cheese , cloth and leather ) in addition to the weekly Saturday market , and all about the central area the full variety of shops , inns , businesses and workshops that one associates with a market town were to be found . |
| 7 | The questions that one asks in a survey must be derived from the object of the research itself : the schedule is only a tool for obtaining information . |
| 8 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 9 | I have never suggested to the media that anybody goes on a programme , unless I know that it will be good radio or good television . |
| 10 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 11 | In conventional crime there is no such similar fracture ; a person is charged with the consequences of his/her action ; if someone dies as a consequence of being stabbed , the assailant is more likely to be charged with a homicide offence rather than ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 12 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 13 | If somebody goes on a drinking binge that 's the behaviour , the decision they make . |
| 14 | if somebody comes as a resident to one of the developments that you now presently run are they there normally for years or for months ? |
| 15 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 16 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 17 | It is also conceivable that if one strays across a band because a property has been improved to the tune of approximately £10,000 , one will not have to pay much extra . |
| 18 | However , if one forgets for a moment the organizational structures of the two parties and considers their policies , one sees a relatively united unionist movement . |
| 19 | If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him . |
| 20 | If one starts with a podzol soil ( acid , anaerobic , and without worms ) the increase will e very slow as earthworms can not migrate quickly . |
| 21 | If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings . |
| 22 | If one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 23 | One can never be defeated if one stands on a matter of morality . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 25 | hughesy is renowned as a ‘ hard man ’ although this appears to be a one way thing — he does nt mind dishing it out but if anyone comes within a foot of him he crashes to the turf , usually clutching his face and rolling around frantically in an attempt to get a fellow professional booked/sent off . |
| 26 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 27 | If anything happens in a crowd their names are always shouted out , so they 're labelled in front of all the teachers as a bad person . |
| 28 | The equipment needs to be checked for any signs of wear and tear well in advance , since if anything breaks in a race it is ultimately you who are to blame for not foreseeing it . |
| 29 | In the rest of the country it is likely to be the Environmental Health Officer , unless someone dies in a council residential home , in which case the County Social Services Department will organise the funeral . |
| 30 | ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history . |