Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 2 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 3 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
| 4 | I know but , but you want , you want , really want one with a closed hole , you 've got it |
| 5 | You really want one with a three |
| 6 | You will also need to decide if you want one with a reclining facility . |
| 7 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |
| 8 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 9 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 10 | Suppose that our best guess of the SGP is some very very small number , say one in a billion . |
| 11 | Fool one from a Belgian port |
| 12 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 13 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 14 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 15 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 16 | If the water is available , a licence is issued , which gives the conditions under which the water can be taken , but , if there is insufficient water , the authority can refuse a licence or issue one for a smaller quantity . |
| 17 | Leave blisters alone , just loosely cover everything with a clean dry cloth and call the doctor . |
| 18 | It was n't a story that put anyone in a good light . |
| 19 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 20 | Pop in and enjoy everything from a fine à la carte meal to a chat over a drink . |
| 21 | In mitigation I could appeal to Proust : ‘ Beneath the signs there lay something of a different kind , which I must try to discover … ’ |
| 22 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 23 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 24 | Modern psychotics also often make something of a personal divinity of the sun , as the following quotation suggests : |
| 25 | You get someone with a sharp knife |
| 26 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 27 | but every now and then we get something with a special offer on which we 're getting the Kelloggs cornflake bowls at the moment . |
| 28 | Those who , like Iris Murdoch , speak of a ‘ selfless attention ’ to others as a supreme mark of virtue — hard to achieve and harder still , as a duty , to discount — surely imply something like a deep security of inner being . |
| 29 | Unless I hear something from a Labour spokesman to suggest they have reasonable plans for single householders , I think many people will be deserting and voting Conservative . |
| 30 | If you ca n't find the particular brand name , find one with a similar % alcohol . |