Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 So that 's that 's what gradient is erm that 's thinking of something very solid like a hill .
32 Unseen by Viola Machin , something very close to a smile wafted over her daughter-in-law 's face .
33 There is something very disturbing about a benefit system which will prop up Mr Deaves until he gets back on his business feet , yet is reluctant to help people who are literally out on the streets .
34 does anybody remember particularly what they were given , or make a great deal about it , of a meal of it , unless you 've given them something absolutely outstanding like a fur coat , I remember the fur coat I was given in
35 ‘ We did n't tell you because it was n't serious , ’ Damian said , ‘ just a mild flutter at first , nothing too unusual in a man of his age . ’
36 In fact , it does n't have to be anything properly identifiable as a deed to communicate interpretable evidence .
37 There 's nought so bleak on a winter 's night
38 Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine .
39 ‘ What on earth induced you to become anything so esoteric as a fuel technician ? ’ he demanded .
40 Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level .
41 Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ?
42 You can use the whole thing with a mouse ( is there anything you ca n't use a mouse with these days ? ) , but we found that the I-beam cursor was anything but stable with a mouse .
43 The very embodiment of horror and evil , he was slain by a Vampire and a humble mortal man possessed by a force anything but mortal in a way still sung of by minstrels and extolled by poets and playwrights .
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