Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 2 | There 's a someone here with a couple of dogs . |
| 3 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 4 | You do n't want to be thinking about someone else at a time like this . |
| 5 | Please remember that non-attendance deprives someone else of a place . |
| 6 | Alternatively , quote someone else in a position of authority who can speak about you . |
| 7 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 8 | This involves you or someone else in a chain with you being paid by goods , services or benefits , instead of in real money . |
| 9 | Finally , the points on his leggings had been tied up wrongly as if done by someone else in a hurry . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're trying to catch somebody immediately after a crime , you grab every man you can and smother the area . |
| 11 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 12 | Why do n't you pick on somebody else for a change ? |
| 13 | ‘ It reminded one forcibly of a Buddha in a Ceylonese temple . |
| 14 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 15 | ‘ But you see , dear , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ he only got that one together in a hurry … ’ |
| 16 | They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts . |
| 17 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 18 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 19 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 20 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 23 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 24 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 25 | Flags were lowered , tributes flooded in , memorial services were held , culminating in the first one ever for a cricketer at Westminster Abbey . |
| 26 | You may find yourself falling when you enter this den of iniquity , and one once in a while wo n't kill you . |
| 27 | Through no fault of their own , through deformity or genetic accident , they found themselves marginalized by Indian society , turned into something half-way between a talisman and an object of ridicule . |
| 28 | Impact printers are the largest group and consist of three main sub categories ; dot matrix , daisy wheel and ink jet and , apart from the latter which actually fires its ink these operate by pressing something hard through a ribbon in order to leave an impression on the sheet of paper . |
| 29 | After all , there was something almost like a brother about him and he was a near neighbour . |
| 30 | 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 . " " |