Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a someone here with a couple of dogs . |
| 2 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 3 | You do n't want to be thinking about someone else at a time like this . |
| 4 | Alternatively , quote someone else in a position of authority who can speak about you . |
| 5 | This involves you or someone else in a chain with you being paid by goods , services or benefits , instead of in real money . |
| 6 | ‘ It reminded one forcibly of a Buddha in a Ceylonese temple . |
| 7 | Large corporations draw up ground plans for restaurants and reduce everything down to a level of mediocrity . |
| 8 | Write each one down on a table like the one on the opposite page . |
| 9 | Xanthe sucked each leaf of her artichoke thoroughly , leaving precise teeth marks above the fleshy pad , then laid each one down on a plate in overlapping circles until she 'd formed a rosette , a second artichoke that looked almost untouched . |
| 10 | Likewise , I 've never trusted anyone who says he can turn one over with a piece of plastic or a credit card . |
| 11 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 12 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 13 | Flags were lowered , tributes flooded in , memorial services were held , culminating in the first one ever for a cricketer at Westminster Abbey . |
| 14 | They began by testing 403 children on their ability to pick the odd one out of a list like ‘ hill , pig , pin ’ . |
| 15 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 16 | They were skiing more slowly now , coming down the valley with Castell Rocamar like something out of a fairy-tale at its head . |
| 17 | We will be getting in touch with the previous occupant to sort something out as a matter of urgency . ’ |
| 18 | We always do everything out of a newspaper for English . ’ |
| 19 | Impact printers are the largest group and consist of three main sub categories ; dot matrix , daisy wheel and ink jet and , apart from the latter which actually fires its ink these operate by pressing something hard through a ribbon in order to leave an impression on the sheet of paper . |
| 20 | After all , there was something almost like a brother about him and he was a near neighbour . |
| 21 | There are already two hundred thousand Chinese living in Cholon and you can buy everything there from a pipe of opium to a slant-eyed " singing girl . " " |
| 22 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 23 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 24 | His European diplomacy had been a triumph ; he had sealed something very like a partnership with Mikhail Gorbachev ; he had reason to think that a deal on the Uruguay round of the GATT would be completed by Christmas . |
| 25 | Everybody else for a look through the field glasses , it does n't cost you |
| 26 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 27 | Anyone not on a sheet of paper or who steps off , drops out of the game . |
| 28 | In every other respect , the manoeuvres will mimic what would happen during World War III , adding a novel experience for anyone out for a drive on Sunday afternoon during a practice run . |
| 29 | On leaving the castle , the dapper-suited President Havel , more at home in sweater and jeans , stood with everyone else for a rendering of the national anthem . |
| 30 | Against them are ranged just about everyone else with a flavour of Unix — including IBM , which has AIX — in a group called the Open Software Foundation . |