Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’ |
| 2 | They do n't seem to worry about anything a lot of these youngsters today . |
| 3 | It looks like something a navvy might use to dig roads up — thin , hollow metal tube , about as thick as a size 10 knitting needle , with a gimlet-like plunger . |
| 4 | Right now , let's think of something a bit trickier . |
| 5 | because er , when they say how old are you and you say forty nine , they say oh well we , we , we were really looking for somebody a bit younger |
| 6 | LOOKING for something a bit different ? |
| 7 | This can be achieved by a variety of teaching strategies , which could include : ( 1 ) starting from the local area ; ( 2 ) using resources related to the locality ; ( 3 ) finding a local example of the general theme ; ( 4 ) use of a " topical peg " , some current event of interest from which work can proceed , or with which analogies can be drawn ; ( 5 ) the enquiry-based approach ; ( 6 ) encouraging " learning through doing " ; ( 7 ) capitalising on something a pupil has brought into school ; ( 8 ) capitalising on an out-of-school visit ; ( 9 ) inviting a visitor into the classroom . |
| 8 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 9 | The better news is that almost every other film — Allen has averaged around one a year since the late 1960s — is available . |
| 10 | Every time I got near anything a floor walker 'd be on me like a shot … . |
| 11 | This is the time of year when we all rack our brains to think of the perfect Christmas present , so if you are planning to look for something a bit different for the machine knitter in the family , this could be the ideal gift . |
| 12 | Roy Thomson assembled from nothing a chain of small-town papers and radio stations in Canada . |
| 13 | Being the hostess calls for something a bit more exciting and this Christmas marabou feather trim adds just the festive touch |
| 14 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 15 | He went to one a couple of weeks ago , a football party and he really did n't wan na go . |
| 16 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 17 | Gina always insisted on one a year , somewhere in Europe — wherever her obnoxious family was performing . |
| 18 | He seemed buttoned into everything a shade too tightly . |
| 19 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 20 | Thus the affective is deeply embedded in everything a scientist does , but it is also a process of ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 21 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |