Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 I mean you mi then you might have said , well actually I want someone here a bit quicker and then they would have done something else .
2 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
3 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
4 ‘ If they do n't , we give someone else a chance . ’
5 Or or or the vice chairman could do it on alto clarinet and give somebody else a clarinet part to play .
6 I 've just had one just a little while back
7 Yeah you see I 've got one quite a good broody , you see ,
8 Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat .
9 It feels that cowboys are being allowed to give everyone else a bad name by scattering illegal signs .
10 Neil and D. Davis did n't bother entering the comp so as to give everyone else a chance … and I ca n't really think of anyone who particularly merits a mention … oh , apart from Z-boy Fez who wore stripy skin tight trousers and looked ridiculous … do n't know the results — and hey !
11 And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance .
12 I follow him through , calling something about a last train .
13 The clerical representatives were a formidable number — forty-two diocesan proctors ( two from each diocese ) and twenty-three cathedral proctors ( including Bath as well as Wells , and Coventry as well as Lichfield ) — and with the rest of the clergy they constituted something over a third of the whole parliament .
14 To replace them , for example , would cost something over a million pounds , but this is actually a repair to those er culverts the .
15 ‘ It 's only fair to tell you that we shall be asking everyone here a few questions about what they were doing yesterday afternoon . ’
16 The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time .
17 They are also fogged by the dumb idea that we are just doing someone else a favour .
18 Council leader Eric Bramfitt said : ‘ Our submission is not about modernising houses and giving everything else a clean lick of paint .
19 Though his expression gave nothing away a muscle flickered at the point of his jaw .
20 ‘ You gave everyone quite a fright . ’
21 It gives one quite a strong idea of what it 's going to be like to be a corpse . ’
22 It was amazing , I think you had one about a hundred conceded .
23 I I I was just thinking about a if I could n't find anything else a fifteen quid voucher for somewhere .
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