Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 2 | You always got someone on a hack to help you . |
| 3 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 4 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 5 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 6 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 7 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 8 | We tried one on a child 's jumper , chest size 66cm ( 26″ ) , using the template for children 5–8 , and this worked out very well . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir Mortimer Wheeler found one with a spear in his back . ’ |
| 10 | There 's only three , yeah three they reckon left in the world and they found one with a Japanese |
| 11 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 12 | I found one in a cave in the Scilly Isles . |
| 13 | When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence . |
| 14 | All this created something of a problem , since it was also recognized that cats were useful ‘ for the suppressing of small vermin ’ . |
| 15 | Occasionally we would be treated to performances by visiting groups who had actually broadcast on the wireless , such as the Bainbridge Brothers , Lance and Jack , and the Swaledale Singers , who sang a varied programme of real life and beauty but created something of a problem with their final number . |
| 16 | In 1901 , as a member of the British congress on tuberculosis , he created something of a sensation . |
| 17 | ‘ This modern peril of the streets ’ , it was observed , ‘ created something like a reign of terror ’ in which ‘ whole sections of a peaceable city community were on the verge of arming themselves against sudden attack ’ . |
| 18 | And you , you know , you used , you used anything as a pillow that you 'd got |
| 19 | ‘ I interviewed someone from a rape camp in Doboj . |
| 20 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 21 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 22 | The notion of neighbourhood social work received something of a boost from the Barclay report of 1982 which endorsed the patch system and community social work as a possible way forward and recommended the ‘ development of flexible decentralised patterns of organisation ’ . |
| 23 | It caused something of a stir north of the border and was reprinted as a pamphlet by the ultranationalist 1320 Club ( 1320 being the date of the signing of Robert I 's Declaration of Arbroath ) . |
| 24 | I believe that my suggestion caused something of a stir . |
| 25 | Indeed he caused something of a turn-up when he named a Swede as one of his three wild card selections in the 12-man side to meet the United States at the Belfry at the end of the month . |
| 26 | Last year you will remember I caused something of a sensation by announcing that this boat would cost £1m to build , this year it is the boat herself which is causing the sensation . ’ |
| 27 | Now the advent of the man himself into a classroom caused something of a sensation , even if it was under cover . |
| 28 | Was it that her bright loveliness caused something like a pain in her chest every time she looked at her ? |
| 29 | Arcadelt 's madrigals coincide with the upswing of interest in the expressive , lyric poetry of Petrarch , which attracted something of a cult following in Rome during the early decades of the 16th century . |
| 30 | A Welsh farming family called an aunt by marriage ‘ granny ; ’ a Grantham print manager 's family took in a grandfather 's cousin ‘ too old to live alone ’ who just ‘ spent her time knitting ’ and ‘ seemed something like a granny but she was n't . ’ |