Example sentences of "with a [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With a hiss a door irised open up ahead of him and the car slipped through , coming out into a great sunken pit , in the centre of which stood the squatly rounded shape of the interplanetary craft .
2 At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine .
3 Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio .
4 With a crash a window burst .
5 More usually , they come down with a thump a yard or so away .
6 Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer .
7 The University of Kong Hong won a cup and gold medals with a discussion a disposing of the industrial chemical wastes .
8 Tom went on a Government training course and then started the business with a £40 a week enterprise allowance .
9 With a taboo a person can not allow himself to see himself doing or saying something — it is an infringement of his image .
10 In the end the Chancellor and the Bank of England came up with a 70p a share safety net .
11 With a rifle a rabbit is either killed or missed .
12 with my bill , bill , bill he knocked at the door with a rat a tat
13 with a rat a tat , tat what else you know ?
14 with a rat a tat , he phoned for the doctor
15 he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat
16 he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat
17 in the morning with my pill , pill , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat
18 he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that
19 TENNIS legend Bjorn Borg has been served with a £21,000 a month maintenance claim to pay for his estranged wife 's household staff .
20 With a murder a minute .
21 And I used to go along with a well a finger you see and , That 's not been dusted you see .
22 There is also a possible link with a robbery a month ago at Saughall Motors .
23 You could do with a lot a lot more .
24 United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them …
25 If this continued into this year , it would leave the Government with a £15m a month overspend .
26 With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past .
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