Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 2 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 3 | The smell of chlorine engulfed her and someone suddenly blew a whistle , the sound echoing in the large enclosed area . |
| 4 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 5 | But in the end someone usually found a barrel , and scrubbed it , and poured in the raisins and the sugar and the water . |
| 6 | I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’ |
| 7 | Someone once asked a shepherd whether his sheep would follow a stranger , and he said . |
| 8 | There is a story that someone once shot a piece out of a glass of beer he had left behind the target , leaving the rest of the glass and the beer intact . |
| 9 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 10 | The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out . |
| 11 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 12 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 13 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 14 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 15 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 16 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 17 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 18 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 19 | Batty 's other great strength is controling the ball , no matter how fast or high it is he brings it down with his chest or foot so he can lay it off for someone else to make a defence splitting pass . |
| 20 | Somebody better mek a U-turn |
| 21 | Somebody better mek a U-turn before de fire start burn . |
| 22 | Somebody better mek a U-turn before de fire start burn . |
| 23 | ‘ I think somebody better have a look at John , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Nobody ever said a person was good , like that . |
| 25 | Nobody ever stood a chance of getting in in unless they were Labour . |
| 26 | there 's nobody really got a nickname in here . |
| 27 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 28 | so they 're not just making it up out of their heads , it actually , you know , somebody really did a study on this , somebody really put this argument forward erm er partly it 's to , I mean some of the things on those things you ca n't easily get in Aston library anyway , some of the things erm er particularly if they 're references to general , you know , sort of , you know , general bits of the , you know , whatever textbook they seem to be using mostly erm |
| 29 | Somebody even had a violin . |
| 30 | at night cos there 's nobody here to have a conversation with . |