Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 2 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 3 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 4 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 5 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 6 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 7 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 8 | ‘ I think somebody better have a look at John , ’ she says . |
| 9 | I mean , there again , you 're seeing these players doing it , when you say , oh what , and you know they do n't call somebody over to have a look at . |
| 10 | Nobody ever stood a chance of getting in in unless they were Labour . |
| 11 | Er just make it available , if somebody asks for it , they 'll go and drag somebody up to have a look at you , and they will keep er er they 've made it so they keep an independent arm , but it 's not the major part of their business . |
| 12 | there 's nobody really got a nickname in here . |
| 13 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 14 | so they 're not just making it up out of their heads , it actually , you know , somebody really did a study on this , somebody really put this argument forward erm er partly it 's to , I mean some of the things on those things you ca n't easily get in Aston library anyway , some of the things erm er particularly if they 're references to general , you know , sort of , you know , general bits of the , you know , whatever textbook they seem to be using mostly erm |
| 15 | at night cos there 's nobody here to have a conversation with . |
| 16 | AUGUSTA may indeed be august , though less snooty than might be imagined , but somebody there has a sense of humour and mischief at least . |
| 17 | It 's about time like s somebody else had a go at it because |
| 18 | It 's like the little boy who 's got a toy , he do n't wan na share it , do n't wan na share it , if forced to share it , he 'll smash it rather than let somebody else have a go with it . |
| 19 | The same as the way that this gentleman has found it 's somebody else making a decision to what people can see and I do n't consider some a show like Pro 's and Con 's which had female nudity and two hundred and fifty people walk out in one night to mean something which I think is enhancing to the playhouse . . |
| 20 | At a matter of fact , it 's rather interesting that because somebody actually had a go at Peter about this , he 's a B B C er and we er , we should n't enter into politics about this , but you know the background of Peter . |
| 21 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 22 | However , one rarely sees a completion of those overs in the allotted time . |
| 23 | In some respects , we still have to do something right to get a point against West Ham . |
| 24 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 26 | One thus gets a sequence of periods : 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , … , ∞ . |
| 27 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 28 | The clues can be written in rhyme e.g. ‘ look as well as you are able , the first clue is by the kitchen table , ‘ You 've found a clue , if you want one more take a look by the kitchen door . ’ |
| 29 | No one ever reminds a member of Famlio of this coincidence . |
| 30 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |