Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was . |
| 6 | They are also fogged by the dumb idea that we are just doing someone else a favour . |
| 7 | ‘ If they do n't , we give someone else a chance . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 11 | Though his expression gave nothing away a muscle flickered at the point of his jaw . |
| 12 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 13 | Or or or the vice chairman could do it on alto clarinet and give somebody else a clarinet part to play . |
| 14 | ‘ Ask him the password , ’ a young woman said , with coral and amber beads jangling round her neck and hair like the plaited mane of a black , Arab stallion , ‘ the riddle-me-ree one only a Romany knows . ’ |
| 15 | All the time he 's writing as if he 'd seen her undressing , but there 's something just a bit more theatrical about the last two . ’ |
| 16 | I made you one just a second ago . |
| 17 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 18 | Well my brother was with went with that one once a boy As a boy . |
| 19 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 20 | By the end of 1989 , however , the relentless way in which Kylie 's team tracked the ‘ pirates ’ had turned what had been a tide into something nearer a trickle . |
| 21 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 22 | one twice a day I I I would keep going with three month prescriptions anyway , so that 'll keep you going till the end of November No not quite the end of November , but you can then see him and say look , I 've got this this is why I 'm on these for . |
| 23 | All fun and game Just one twice a day . |
| 24 | The next step up is the hundreds , and you use them in exactly the same way , one twice a week . |
| 25 | He he 's on the second one quite a bit . |
| 26 | As I 'm not the person to answer you very little to get , I 'm get into something quite a lot , you know ? |
| 27 | ‘ You gave everyone quite a fright . ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , we wo n't look for anyone else a while . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | 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 . |