Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | But in view of the fact that different actuaries can come to different answers and Professor Good quotes one where a difference of half per cent gives rise to a difference of a hundred and sixty seven million . |
| 5 | ‘ If they do n't , we give someone else a chance . ’ |
| 6 | Or or or the vice chairman could do it on alto clarinet and give somebody else a clarinet part to play . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 10 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are also fogged by the dumb idea that we are just doing someone else a favour . |
| 13 | Though his expression gave nothing away a muscle flickered at the point of his jaw . |
| 14 | ‘ You gave everyone quite a fright . ’ |
| 15 | We was gon na put something up a pole and er |