Example sentences of "and [indef pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 2 | You know it 's like , you sometimes you can go a whole game like seventy minutes of a game and no-one 's had a goal scoring chance |
| 3 | It was a cool night and someone had made a bonfire on the sand . |
| 4 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 5 | But within the clearing it was warm and safe-feeling ; Clumhach had lit their usual fire , which was burning up brightly , and somebody had placed a cauldron of spiced wine to simmer over it . |
| 6 | It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van halfway along . |
| 7 | I throw up onto the floor and they pause the video for me and somebody goes to get a mop . |
| 8 | And somebody has got a question . |
| 9 | Some had given radio talks and one had founded a society for people with his own impairment . |
| 10 | For instance , there 's one where two girls watch their brothers playing football and one 's got a bucket on his head . |
| 11 | Sometimes in truth they do not exist : not all human behaviour is addictive in nature and one has to keep a sense of balance . |
| 12 | Ms Robins said : ‘ It has been a challenge and everybody has learned a lot from it . |
| 13 | So that , this is when fractions come into it and everybody starts getting a bit ooh I 'm not very sure of what I 'm doing here because it 's not , you know , it 's not obvious , it 's not very real |