Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you erm thought it at least very possible that there was someone with a gun the other side of the door . |
| 2 | To someone on a planet a long , long way off it would look just like an ordinary star . ’ |
| 3 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 4 | Six hundred or something for a day no four hundred for a day . |
| 5 | but erm he described a , my mum told her everything about a fall the bump on her head , he knew |
| 6 | Adding excess information to Ventura documents becomes something of a hazard the more complex they get . |
| 7 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 8 | Er one with a cornet every morning down there . |
| 9 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 10 | A tune was sounding in his head — something from a magazine a friend had sent from Glasgow . |
| 11 | For something over a century the major export item was beaver fur for felting and making into men 's hats . |
| 12 | The idea that dream objects have sexual symbolism can , however , degenerate into a sort of post-Artemidorian dream-book formula , where anything elongated is a phallic symbol , anything with a hole a vaginal one . |
| 13 | The changes that have been introduced into South Africa forced upon the white minority government by both international pressure but also by the magnificent work at the A N C in Cosatu must be supported as well but we can not treat South Africa as anything but a pariah a , a , a national pariah until we see one person one vote , and a black majority government in South Africa . |