Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newton said : ‘ I 'm really chuffed because this is the third goal I 've scored in half an hour as a striker this season . |
| 2 | Laventhol , who makes most of his loot as a carpenter these days , explained Smeggy and Maggot would be the other former Kurt mainmen engaged at the Astoria soirée . |
| 3 | So Melanie actually had the gall to ask her brother Nick for the money for an abortion that night . |
| 4 | It is assumed that on completion of a form some amount of discussion between the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group will be required to enable the request to be actioned . |
| 5 | ‘ Meanwhile I 've just signed with Stock Aitken and Waterman to produce my next records , and there are plenty of things happening on the television score — it 's all rather secret but there is talk of a sit-com this autumn . ’ |
| 6 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 7 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 8 | After promotion we needed someonone with a bit more class . |
| 9 | Oh I do n't know the supermarkets the best part of an hour this time of year . |
| 10 | A ten-year trial by the Ministry of Agriculture , started in 1980 on the Norfolk peat marshes near Acle , is indicating a fall in ground level of an inch each year . |
| 11 | He had a bit of a cold this morning . |
| 12 | Rebel ringleader James Cran warned today they were ‘ quite determined to give the government a bit of a shock this evening ’ . |
| 13 | Getting a bit of a hazard this place ! |
| 14 | I 've a , I 've had a bit of a migraine this morning |
| 15 | My taken a bit of banging this morning in it ? , hot plate a bit of a bashing this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ Filippo and I are throwing a bit of a party this evening . |
| 17 | Well , it 's a bit of a sandwich this weekend , is n't it really ? |
| 18 | It was all a bit of a blur that night . |
| 19 | And I 'm very pleased I 'm gon na have a bit of a result this afternoon . |
| 20 | Gritstone is showing a bit of a renaissance these days — there have already been two new E8s this year — and it 's continuing to see plenty of action . |
| 21 | You probably think it 's going to be a bit of a skive this afternoon , but it certainly is n't . |
| 22 | Dong , sensing his brother 's fear , reached quietly behind him in the darkness with his free hand until his fingers brushed against the face of the malaria victim ; the clammy flesh , already growing cold , was slippery with rain and the sweat of the fatal climatic fever , and in the moment that his hand recoiled from the contact Dong knew that they would not be able to avoid the horror of a burial this time . |
| 23 | In the case of a hunter this training is far more intense , because the intricacy of forest paths and the difficulty of tracing animals demand the greatest power of observation . |
| 24 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 25 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 26 | I 've seen one bloke with a giro this week . |
| 27 | The TBMs start work from a point some 45m down while the bottom of the shaft acts as a mucking basis from which slurry is pumped to the nearby Fond Pignon spoil disposal site . |
| 28 | Walden are next to bottom without a win all season but their brave defence reduced Colchester to a kicking game on a day which seemed perfect for running rugby . |
| 29 | It is the second fatal crash on a level-crossing this year but follows a series of similar incidents in previous years . |
| 30 | It was said Harper had been the boyfriend of Emma , but following a tiff at a pub that evening , he had preferred the company of Rebecca . |