Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
2 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
3 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
4 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
5 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
6 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
7 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
8 | Each one of perhaps a group of four should prepare a brief summary of an article of general interest . |
9 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
10 | the important thing in the last two years , everything has to be in , as I say it 's not true to say everything but quite a lot of things have been in , so both those are , are the . |
11 | It does rather spoil the fun , though , when the spoof is too obvious — the one in the 31 March issue was so obviously naive and reckless in its content that it could not possibly have fooled anybody with even a grain of sense . |
12 | He says it 's better to live in a town without too many cars with everybody with just a bike . |