Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire . |
| 2 | Am I a fool and they direct and right ? |
| 3 | Or have you bought someone a present and then spent ages trying to cover up the price printed on the packaging ? |
| 4 | Yes I mean even though what I was saying about do n't worry about the , the , the headlines , you know , it it is there you are , and the last one , but you 're actually just giving someone a clue if they wanted to , or if they wanted to find out very briefly what it is about . |
| 5 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 6 | When Celtic equalised , bringing about a result that caused Aberdeen to lose ground in the championship race , there was that involuntary twitching movement , spreading from Aitken 's head to his toes , which signals that he is on the verge of doing someone a mischief unless he gets a satisfactory explanation in a very short space of time . |
| 7 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 8 | But just one word of advice : if you offer someone a drink and they reply , ‘ No problem ’ , it actually means ‘ Yes , please ’ . |
| 9 | Give someone a job and they wo n't be tempted to steal cars . |
| 10 | But we do not like to admit that we masturbate , because people might think that we can not get ourselves a man or a woman of our own . |
| 11 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |
| 12 | ‘ It 'd take 'er an hour or more to get there . |
| 13 | a dance figure in which a couple or couples join hands and dance round and round ; found in country dances such as the ‘ Sir Roger de Coverley ’ . |
| 14 | It is the period during which a boy or girl also grows from a child to an adult in body , mind and personality — a considerable transformation . |
| 15 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 16 | At the same time , although there were considerable powers on which a king and his administrators could draw , not every monarch could actually mobilize his resources . |
| 17 | Before , however , notice is given in respect of premises for which a hotel or public house licence is held or in respect of the premises of a registered club , a declaration of the licensing board 's satisfaction that the premises are constructed and used ( or intended to be used ) for providing for the accommodation of persons frequenting the premises the customary main meal at mid-day must be obtained . |
| 18 | It may be more helpful to admit that what we are dealing with here are very complex pragmatic ways in which a sentence and a context of utterance interact to pick out a proposition , by reference to the audio-visual monitoring of the speech event as it unfolds . |
| 19 | The device comprises a steel casing within which a ceramic or metal support is coated with a catalyst of precious metals . |
| 20 | The agreement on a supranational Bank of Europe , for which a US and Japanese input would be invited , to help Eastern Europe was announced by the French Foreign Minister Mr Roland Dumas . |
| 21 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 22 | Incense or oil burner in the form of a Swastika adorning an ant-hill in which a Cobra or Nag is in residence . |
| 23 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 24 | Or conversely , a political system in which a monarch or an aristocracy formally ruled might disguise the fact that real power was in the hands of the people . |
| 25 | But it is at least possible to imagine circumstances in which a ruling or decision of the panel might give rise to legitimate complaint . |
| 26 | Yes , there were things she would never experience in life , special things which a man and woman in love might enjoy ; she would never carry Tyler 's child again , nor would the two of them grow old together , content in each other 's love . |
| 27 | Diplock LJ in Every v Miles , Court of Appeal in 1964 explained the process by which a decision as to the amount of the appropriate award in a particular case was made as follows : |
| 28 | The William de Brailes workshop in Oxford is the first workshop to which a name and a definite location can be assigned , and whose products can be identified . |
| 29 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 30 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |