Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very new on the wing and someone in for a bad sex offence talked about their crime and I was badly affected . |
| 2 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 3 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 4 | So we 're trying to bring everyone up to a certain level in certain selected topics — aspects of mechanics , heat , wave motion . |
| 5 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 6 | Such a feature should always have somewhere positive to go and here the path leads one on with a genuine air of anticipation . |
| 7 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
| 8 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |
| 9 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 10 | The thin man jotted something down in a narrow , cramped hand . |
| 11 | The wind was moving everything along like a nervous policeman . |
| 12 | Asked to stand guard over good or treasure , they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger . |
| 13 | I mean you still write one over resistance but do n't think of the resistance part of it , think of the new one over as a separate entity . |
| 14 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 15 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 16 | He was the odd one out in a gifted family . |
| 17 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 18 | In his drunkenness he had seemed like something out of a cheap Sunday newspaper : her marriage was like that also , as her husband was , underhand and vicious in a small town . |
| 19 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 20 | Kelly 's scream echoed silently within her as , like something out of a distant dream , the band played on . |
| 21 | The other women had n't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes . |
| 22 | But I 'm getting a , I 'd , I 'd , I 'm up to normal now , I 've got everything back on a normal par I think . |
| 23 | Not directly but you can make one in that how that once everybody gets , once you have the resources to raise everybody up to a certain sort of acceptable standard of living , then you can redistribute those resources and you are , you are , y you 'll be able to eliminate poverty |
| 24 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 25 | He admired Tiller , describing him as a genius at organizing and directing his Girls but also noting that John ordered everyone about in a dictatorial way . |
| 26 | Guaranteed sound against anything up to a direct hit in the eyeball with a ScumStopper bullet . |
| 27 | HOT OR COLD running liquids are on offer for anything up to a whole day in the 24 Hour Flask . |
| 28 | ca n't throw anything out on a stormy night |