Example sentences of "[indef pn] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will surely give someone a heart attack … |
| 2 | Driving licences , in particular , are like giving someone a cheque book . |
| 3 | There 's not many men who are n't even relations that 'd give someone a record player for a wedding present . ’ |
| 4 | Give someone a fighting chance |
| 5 | And if you give somebody a pound coin they think your giving you two P . |
| 6 | we 're looking at the most likely scenario being appointing nobody , and if we do appoint somebody a complaint examiner , it seems , |
| 7 | Make the effort to send everyone a Christmas card every year . |
| 8 | Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he 's away from home . |
| 9 | Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts . |
| 10 | You 're going to have everything a London gentleman should have , a carriage , and horses , and everything ! ’ |
| 11 | There are houses for the staff , a hostel for the stable lads , kitchens and rest rooms and everything a race horse could want . |
| 12 | ‘ To me the Lotus Seven was everything a sports car should be . ’ |
| 13 | Its opalescent waters seemed to be everything a Star Maiden from the Pleiades could wish to bathe in . |
| 14 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 15 | they 'll bring in something a housing grant |
| 16 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 17 | That 's something a Unix operating system has never achieved , observed Microsoft 's NT director , Dwayne Walker . |
| 18 | More than 45 million Agatha Christie novels have been sold in Russia every one a pirate edition . |
| 19 | One was in an inner city , one an industrial town , one a country town , and one a county capital . |
| 20 | For mummy 's birthday mummy would like one a gold locket with a strong chain . |
| 21 | There were two colleges in the university , one a government institution with very able staff , mainly European in my early years , and the other Judson College , founded and maintained by the American Baptist Church which was the biggest Church in Burma . |
| 22 | In one a hunts man , his hunting-horn swinging free from his neck , is sticking a stake into a wild boar , which also has a dog sinking its teeth into its neck ; in another , two lions , one very heraldic and standoffish , are attacking a gazelle , helped by a bird of prey ; in the third , which is decidedly curious , a mule leads a lolling-tongued , wolf-like animal captive while ahead of it a hunts man is tensing his bow to fire at some unseen target . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd give her little one a cinnamon cake . |
| 24 | A strange freedom , though ; one a barrage balloon would know if someone severed its cable and set it at liberty to wallow and wander at will . |
| 25 | Two main components of it — one a pilot project , the other , changed financial relationships between health authorities and local authorities . |
| 26 | His astonishing ears rotated independently , one a fly swat , one on radar alert , conducting the sound of the chickadees , sending semaphore to the bees . |
| 27 | The Early Minoan burials were mainly in collective tombs , each one a family grave that continued in use over several generations . |
| 28 | Week one a slide lecture right ? |
| 29 | Three of those who died were pedestrians , one a driver , one a car passenger . |
| 30 | And what 's that other one a tern stone ? |