Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smell of chlorine engulfed her and someone suddenly blew a whistle , the sound echoing in the large enclosed area . |
| 2 | Someone once asked a shepherd whether his sheep would follow a stranger , and he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nobody ever said a person was good , like that . |
| 7 | Nobody ever stood a chance of getting in in unless they were Labour . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Somebody even had a violin . |
| 10 | If anyone out there wants a crane , makes an offer to Bristol Works Department in about three years ' time — they bought it cheap ( £16,000 ) because nobody else wanted a crane that could n't be moved about easily ! |
| 11 | It 's about time like s somebody else had a go at it because |
| 12 | How can anyone dream up a handicap system whereby my handicap can go up because somebody else scored a net 65 ? |
| 13 | At a matter of fact , it 's rather interesting that because somebody actually had a go at Peter about this , he 's a B B C er and we er , we should n't enter into politics about this , but you know the background of Peter . |
| 14 | Yeah , you 've got three doors which is more storage space than the other one , cos the other one only had a cupboard down had no drawers , what 's the matter ? |
| 15 | old one still had a day 's life left in it . |
| 16 | The first man chooses a pub along Marsh Wall on the Millwall Dock , which in my day was the kind of place no one ever wore a suit . |
| 17 | No one ever had a chance to change his or her mind , either . |
| 18 | Instinctively he rolled in the saddle and felt the white-hot stab of pain as something sharp scored a line across his shoulders . |
| 19 | One even had a flagpole and over the top of the trees below I could see the Union Jack fluttering . |
| 20 | Apparently one even had a room to oneself . |
| 21 | Anybody else got a problem ? |
| 22 | Yes everybody nearly had a pony and gig then . |
| 23 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 24 | If anyone ever deserved a hardship bonus , it was him . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone else got a question ? ’ |
| 26 | Anyone else got a question ? |
| 27 | Anyone else got a view on this ? |
| 28 | If anyone else ran a yard of sixty flat-race horses like he did , they would have been out of business years ago . |