Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 2 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 3 | Suddenly , someone let out an enormous burp . |
| 4 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 5 | Someone hands out a flyer for Digital Bubblebath , a rave set for next weekend . |
| 6 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |
| 7 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 8 | Someone clattered down a wooden staircase . |
| 9 | The four Commandos on the 3″ mortar were still firing their bombs , each as it left the muzzle of the mortar making a distinctive musical sound like someone blowing down a length of drainpipe . |
| 10 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 11 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 12 | Someone picks up a bill from the floor , opens it . |
| 13 | someone tugging off a pair of tights … |
| 14 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 15 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 16 | Erm if we see you know , if we see somebody walking down a walkway , and he 's got a stereo in his arm , arms should I say , and he puts it into a car then obviously it a it arouses our suspicion , we 'll take a quick note of the car 's registration number , and we 'll pass the relevant information through to Police Station . |
| 17 | By way of preparation for this Friday the 13th escapade somebody handed over A Dictionary of Superstitions , which is not the sort of inspiration one needs . |
| 18 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached ( unless somebody dredges up a ‘ living fossil ’ from the depths of the ocean ) — there are only varying degrees of probability . |
| 19 | ‘ In one reminiscence session somebody brought in an old-fashioned Victorian commode , which looked like a chair , and the group was asked what it was . |
| 20 | Had to sleep with both eyes open in case somebody pulled out a knife on him . ’ |
| 21 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |
| 22 | Somebody puts up a reward , every shamus in town is gon na try to pick it up . |
| 23 | Everyone stepped up a mark in the Seventies . |
| 24 | One read out a letter about how his shop was being pushed out of business by EC regulations . |
| 25 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 26 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 27 | The taken-for-grantedness of those practices around which a conventional culture is formed represents closure ; a genuine academic community , even one built round a well-defined discipline , on the other hand , abhors closure . |
| 28 | I once found an injured one walking along a beach near where I live , and when I picked it up to see what was wrong , I underestimated the length of its beak . |
| 29 | Everything came out a little bit corny . |
| 30 | The whole scene looked like something soaked off a box of chocolates . |