Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does n't someone throw a hand grenade ? ’ |
| 2 | Also , can someone explain a bit more the team formation . |
| 3 | Should n't someone have a word with the office and tell them what happens if you try to take your Archer into Gatwick or Heathrow ? |
| 4 | The fact that we had an armed guard lowered no one 's spirits ; made everyone feel a lot more comfortable , including , if they only knew it , the ex-FAKINTIL chief sapper himself . |
| 5 | Er can you Well hopefully in the minutes I need to can somebody make a note , we have to fund raise for that . |
| 6 | In the early days , shipowners and shippers petitioned the Crown to let somebody build a lighthouse and charge a specified levy on the ships that benefited from it . |
| 7 | Er and was it said she saw somebody take a cake . |
| 8 | ‘ Kevin Brown says it was almost as if he was hit by a bazooka , right in front of them , but they saw nothing like a bazooka . |
| 9 | But how does one make a living at it ? |
| 10 | The difficulty we all share is how can one construct a planning framework which allows for strategically significant inward investment to be accommodated without declaring an open season of speculative proposals from developers and uncertainty at the local level up and down the county . |
| 11 | This is the meaning of de Gaulle 's exasperated remark , ‘ How can one govern a country which makes 400 different types of cheese ? ’ |
| 12 | How does one locate a fraud expert , for example ? |
| 13 | What does one buy a software and computer services company for ? |
| 14 | " Ali , I had the size of your pretty fingers by heart , " said Dadda who was adept at making one feel a heel . |
| 15 | How could one neglect a man who was never there ? |
| 16 | Not only must one formulate a model of the entire economy , but one must be able to calculate the effect of a change in some parameter , say a tax rate , on the whole system . |
| 17 | How could one ring a bell on a house door in respectable places like this and say , |
| 18 | Could one envisage a curriculum without history ? |
| 19 | How did one become a Muslim ? |
| 20 | Someone said well we 'll just have a generic British paper because , you know , we 're going to do a story about a newspaper office and we need something like a newspaper but is n't actually one . |
| 21 | When you put the and that 's the difference about drama at college is you 're doing it to please yourself and the , the group that you 're in with and ultimately I suppose your tutor but when you do something like a pantomime when you 're doing it to please the punters |
| 22 | I thought that the R5 Fantasy league did something like a point for each goal the attackers sides scored |
| 23 | In each mess the menu was sufficiently wide to make one dither a bit because there were several options that looked appetising . |
| 24 | How did one stop a person like Harriet , headstrong , independent , beholden to no one ? |
| 25 | But did something take a bite out of this oar ? |
| 26 | Why should one pay a bill that was out of all proportion to the goods received ? |
| 27 | How does one write a travel book , I 'd wondered aloud , how describe the sheer physicality of life ? |
| 28 | Where else in the world can one get a pledge of a 6.25 per cent . |
| 29 | How does one define a democracy ? |
| 30 | How quickly can one learn a language ? |