Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 2 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 3 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 4 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 5 | A fortnight ago , the Norwich Union East Champions lost to Redbridge and Ilford , who Chelmsford have beaten this season , but form would count for nothing in a derby game , he insisted . |
| 6 | The most famous of the town 's shopping areas is The Lanes : an inviting labyrinth of seventeenth century red-brick streets full of antique shops , jewellers , perfumeries , fine china and stores for everyone with a passion for fashion . |
| 7 | " She looking for someone for a job ? " |
| 8 | The post would be appropriate for someone with a background in the private or public sectors . |
| 9 | If you are making the cake for someone with a pony or with a favourite horse character in a book , make the ponies in the stable in their appropriate colours , and pipe the names over the doors . |
| 10 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 11 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 12 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 13 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 14 | ‘ Such conduct was clearly not acceptable for someone in a position of authority in a public company . ’ |
| 15 | It is all too easy for someone in a position of influence to think they are there simply by virtue of their own ability . |
| 16 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 17 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 18 | The news broke after something of a lull in the abundant reporting of incidents from the various scenes of fighting . |
| 19 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 20 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 21 | In an instant his fine offering consisted of nothing but a tangle of leaves and twigs and the pale unlovely innards of dead blossoms . |
| 22 | He embraces failure and chaos with the zest of someone with a mission from Hell . |
| 23 | In the driving seat was a woman in her late thirties perhaps , white , but with the almost stern aquiline features of someone with a trace of Polynesian blood . |
| 24 | It is surprising how many people go through life breathing inadequately and , although in many instances this does not prove to be too great a problem , in the case of someone with a stammer it can increase their difficulties enormously . |
| 25 | So there is none of the relief of a true unburdening , and the discussion of problems that characterises the homecoming of someone to a companion who is close in age as well as relationship . |
| 26 | Over by the volleyball court a crowd of older children gathered to look at postcards of Scotland ( always an icebreaker , particularly if you can find a picture of someone in a kilt ) . |
| 27 | A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter . |
| 28 | Colin diverges slightly from the McKenna party line that psychedelics should be taken on your own with the help of someone like a psychotherapist , and for illumination rather than recreation . |
| 29 | Well the situation there is firstly there is little point in shouting and identifying ourselves if , firstly there 's nobody in the flat , or secondly er we 're giving advance warning that we are coming along the corridor to a possible location , er of somebody with a firearm . |
| 30 | She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks . |