Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
| 2 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 3 | but he did I a favour at by bringing out er a law that said that they must provide something like this . |
| 4 | This applies very clearly to the Zapotec , who , as O'Nell puts it , ask ‘ not so much , ‘ Who am I ? ’ , but ‘ How am I a part of something ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm and I a work of God 's grace a in us to make us like that . |
| 6 | I a bit like this |
| 7 | ‘ Had I a heart for falsehood framed ’ ( The Duenna ) , DS 14 . |
| 8 | Have I a nomination for the office of Lord Mayor for the year ? |
| 9 | Have I a nomination for the office of Vice Chair of Council ? |
| 10 | ‘ Am I a pot with water ? ’ |
| 11 | So I thought that 's two , erm and I a couple of quid did n't I , in the card , then I thought no I wo n't put it in the card I 'll |
| 12 | If he was given them tokens or something like that , it would of been alright , but I , I , I a couple of weeks ago |
| 13 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 14 | and I a chair for the |
| 15 | I Western , she Eastern ; I entire , she mutilated ; I exchanging the deepest bargain of the heart with Gustave , she involved in a brief physical transaction ; I a woman of independence and resource , she a caged creature dependent on her trade with men ; I meticulous , groomed and civilised , she filthy , stinking and savage . |
| 16 | ‘ It has given my wife and I a lot of comfort . |
| 17 | I a lot of pain at the back of my eye though |
| 18 | I 've met 'er a couple o' times . ’ |
| 19 | They found 'er a place near 'er daughter in Kent somewhere . ’ |
| 20 | So if I give someone a bit of a clout now and then , it sort of clears me again . ’ |
| 21 | The first point to note is that sending someone a contract of employment does not involve any re-formatting of text . |
| 22 | And why not give someone a treat by investing in a subscription to both magazines ? |
| 23 | Consider how the following actions are both " ordinary " , and symbolic : Giving someone a mug of water . |
| 24 | But a crucial element of meaning can not be construed in this way , namely , the negative , scolding aspect ; because of this , the expression to give someone a piece of one 's mind must be considered semi-opaque — and , by the same token , only semi-translucent . |
| 25 | ‘ I can hardly sell someone a packet of cigarettes and then tell them they ca n't smoke . |
| 26 | After all , there seems to be no point in spending many hours carefully making someone a set of pink designs if that is the one colour they ca n't abide ! |
| 27 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 28 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 29 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 30 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |