Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , the carol festivals are on and there 's one at Thaxted , which might be quite nice , actually , erm it 's on the same page , the previous column And someone 's just taken a driving test at ninety one . |
| 2 | This is played from the Critical Parent where someone is apparently praising a job well done but spoils the effect by pointing out a relatively insignificant imperfection . |
| 3 | He 's at a party in Toronto to honour his pal Warren Beatty ; someone is always giving a party for Beatty and when they do n't he gives one for himself . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody 's ever given a member of staff here flowers before , ’ he observed with a twinkle . |
| 5 | Well no , no , erm but would n't know if you saw one , you people only tell us but , but nobody 's ever seen a ghost in there so |
| 6 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 7 | Years later the feminists were inspired by her most famous statement , ‘ One is not born a woman , one becomes one ’ , to conclude that the inferior status of ‘ the second sex ’ was not a natural phenomenon but a man-made one . |
| 8 | One is simply placing a microphone in the corner of a bar and hoping that people will listen , and another is putting comedians on as part of a disco . |
| 9 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 10 | STAIN TOK I The awareness that one is helplessly living a role |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a terrible self-consciousness at being a new student in a hall of residence , hearing the clattering dinner plates , going into the dining room and not knowing anybody , then suddenly realising ( as happens to the heroine , Laura , in the novel ) that one 's not wearing a gown and everyone else is . |
| 12 | He says to me , ‘ Tip , I 'm going to give you more money than anyone 's ever given a caddie before , but just look after my clubs . |
| 13 | If anyone is currently fighting a case such as this , I would also be pleased to hear from them as it does seem to me that the Revenue is using its muscle to try to remove one of the benefits of independent taxation . |
| 14 | Now no-one 's ever seen a quark for the simple reason that no-one has ever managed to produced a free quark . |