Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are already two hundred thousand Chinese living in Cholon and you can buy everything there from a pipe of opium to a slant-eyed " singing girl . " " |
| 2 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 3 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 4 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 5 | The mark of a good network is excellent data throughput , and a fast cached local bus IDE card should knock everything else into a cocked hat , even giving that speed demon , SCSI , a run for its money . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope , ’ said Rain over her shoulder , ‘ we do n't meet anyone else with a gun . ’ |
| 7 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 8 | ‘ The only time you do n't take a shooting chance is if you are certain you can play someone else into a better scoring chance , ’ he said last night . |
| 9 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |
| 10 | American newcomer Donny Odom started well and finished unluckily , but Mark Lemon could not get anything right on a disastrous night which started with a crash into the safety fence and finished with an engine failure . |
| 11 | After all , by conforming with the prejudices of many voters , it must offer something close to a ‘ dream ’ economic platform for the politicians . |
| 12 | But it was unlikely that the Palestinians would accept anything else as a just settlement . |