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 . |