Example sentences of "[indef pn] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I give someone a bit of a clout now and then , it sort of clears me again . ’ |
| 2 | The first point to note is that sending someone a contract of employment does not involve any re-formatting of text . |
| 3 | And why not give someone a treat by investing in a subscription to both magazines ? |
| 4 | Consider how the following actions are both " ordinary " , and symbolic : Giving someone a mug of water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I can hardly sell someone a packet of cigarettes and then tell them they ca n't smoke . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | No but I mean you 'd gi maybe give somebody a bit of pleasure sorting them out . |
| 9 | You talk about if it 's something you 're used to you talk about something and you know what you 're talking of and somebody a bit like actual |
| 10 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 11 | If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence . |
| 12 | You will be doing everyone a service by making sure that at these times a copy of your prospectus is at hand . |
| 13 | He thanked the press for a 50th birthday card in Glasgow and bought everyone a drink in Wales , but he does not mingle like Paddy Ashdown or even Mr Major . |
| 14 | It gave everyone a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 15 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 16 | All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good . |
| 17 | If they had the courage to say that , they would have saved everyone a lot of trouble . |
| 18 | It was giving everyone a lot of pleasure . |
| 19 | I think it does everyone a lot of good . |
| 20 | You could n't hold him , and I do n't wonder , because you had nothing a man like Walter would want . |
| 21 | I set you up a mini-orgy , a nice little threesome , and the minute it rocks a bit , nothing a mite of persuasion would n't put right , you start giving an address on the Greek verb ‘ to rub ’ . |
| 22 | Roy Thomson assembled from nothing a chain of small-town papers and radio stations in Canada . |
| 23 | A decision was expected yesterday but , in a brief statement , chairman Reg Smart said : ‘ We are giving everything a lot of consideration . |
| 24 | Everything a substitute for everything else , he wrote . |
| 25 | You can imagine how fascinated Rosette is by everything a woman like your mother does ; but that need n't mean that there 's much truth in what she tells one . ’ |
| 26 | and a lot more Because otherwise , you 're gon na come to that exam , you 're gon na sit down , and you 're gon na say , Oh I did something a bit like this with John , I remember that . |
| 27 | Now the DNA operating system of a species is very very old indeed , and there is evidence that it , seen in the long term , does something a bit like the computer with its disc files . |
| 28 | Do you have something a bit like it ? |
| 29 | For what we want , we should of bought the one this , something a bit like this house but . |
| 30 | This is something a lot of people ignore . |