Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A prevailing sense of relief and a chance for everyone to forge a career non-reliant on academic achievement . |
2 | These traditional guidelines do n't have to be rigidly adhered to — it 's quite common these days for everyone to lend a hand whether on a practical or financial level . |
3 | ‘ Simply because he managed to avert such a disaster he was there for everyone to have a go at . |
4 | In one sense , of course , there is more than enough knowledge available for everyone to have a sufficiency . |
5 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
6 | This will vary greatly between someone reading a novel on a train and someone reading it as part of the study for a PhD thesis . |
7 | His idea of heaven would be for someone to design a device which would allow him to read a book in there . |
8 | My uncle is looking for someone to replace a partner who 's retiring . ’ |
9 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |
10 | So there are a multitude of different reasons for someone to join a church planting team . |
11 | If she looks round one day for someone to borrow a fiver off she might , just might , notice I 'm not there . ’ |
12 | I 'm waiting for someone to use a tankful of petrol so I can go and have a look . |
13 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
14 | GRAHAM TAYLOR searches desperately for someone to get a grip of England 's midfield and you wonder if it is too late — at 28 — for Stewart Robson . |
15 | Caring for Someone provides a wealth of information on the range of benefits available for the person being cared for , and the carer . |
16 | Now is the time for someone to make a movie and show how music and the summer of love has affected everything . |
17 | Erm whereas if there were independent trustees responsible to the regulator and they were properly trained , they would I suggest be able to smell out very quickly any malpractice and would have straight to the regulator , if only to call a stop for someone to have a look at it . |
18 | Yes , yes er whereas if there were independent trustees responsible to the regulator and they were properly trained , they would I suggest be able to smell out very quickly an malpractice and would have a group straight to the regulator , if only to call a stop for someone to have a look at it . |
19 | I think that is wrong ; it should be necessary for someone to have a licence in order to keep animals , including keeping animals on farms . |
20 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
21 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
22 | He wrote as someone perceiving a breakthrough . |
23 | All I 'm waiting for right , is for somebody to set a precedent for for erm doing people for manslaughter because of secondary lung cancer then you 're fucking history sonny . |
24 | I think the sorry , Bill , the erm confusion arises because we 're talking about warranties and insurance and most people buying a car , getting extended insurance or one of these insurance schemes , will assume it 's warranty , but there 's no protection for somebody issuing a warranty going out of business . |
25 | just for somebody to drop a card |
26 | We followed the tweed skirt into a kitchen where its owner motioned us to sit , in the manner of someone training a dog . |
27 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
28 | Our image of the typical newspaper reader in Britain has to be that of someone reading a tabloid , not a highbrow quality paper . |
29 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
30 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |