Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so riled a sixteenth-century conquistadore as the knowledge that some men indulged in sodomy , and Balboa felt no compunction in setting the dreadful war-dogs on the culprits and having them tom to pieces in full public view . |
| 2 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
| 3 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 4 | Erm , she asked if we were very keen to involve the school , I said yes we were cos she said nobody really taken a great interest in the Royal Quays not |
| 5 | Nobody even made a simple statement . |
| 6 | Ludens , who had never shaved anybody but himself before , soon discovered that shaving somebody else required a different technique . |
| 7 | No-one ever does a steamy love scene with Danny De Vito . ’ |
| 8 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 9 | One rarely sees a black swan in classical ballet . |
| 10 | Would you like to do something locally to make a visible improvement ? |
| 11 | The 1983 election , although a significant Conservative success , was not a realigning one , nor one necessarily presaging a long spell of Conservative rule . |
| 12 | To demonstrate that something necessarily has a certain property , so the theory runs , is to show , by means of a syllogistic argument from certain axioms or first principles , that it has it . |
| 13 | And to do this at all one obviously needs a general account of the relation between them . |
| 14 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 15 | How can one possibly advance a social explanation for practices whose very constitutive principle is their independence from society ? |
| 16 | No one ever had a truer friend . |
| 17 | At the same time , it is from Luke that one also learns a great deal about the Nazarean Party . |
| 18 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 19 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 20 | Here one immediately has a sociological concept to work on — but to what purpose ? |
| 21 | Samuel , this was taken from an advertisement in one of the magazines , and one sometimes got a little bit of er of exaggeration . |
| 22 | That one there has a good appearance but to my mind it 's not deep enough . |
| 23 | Everything then became a kaleidoscopic array of sounds and feelings as they slipped over the edge of control . |
| 24 | Something else making a welcome return is the bumble bee . |
| 25 | One fundamental characteristic of professional people ( including those who are the most successful ) is to put technical excellence in their own field first , everything else coming a poor second . |
| 26 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 27 | One definitely has a grey suit underneath , and the other is probably the same . |
| 28 | So I do n't think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem . |
| 29 | the , boring , unimaginative anybody else got a good word to start |
| 30 | I mean , er er has anybody else had a similar experience ? |