Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 2 | Well , I nearly fell off , that 's all , and it gave me foot a bit of a twinge . |
| 3 | We get some of our funding from the Home Office , but we certainly do n't cost them £1,000 a week — nowhere near . ’ |
| 4 | He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now . |
| 5 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 6 | Q : I bought my PC a month ago , so I do n't know very much about it yet . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to give the people who use my houses a rare and primitive relationship with the raw forces of nature . |
| 8 | ‘ It makes my plans a great deal easier anyway . ’ |
| 9 | Phillis played it all the time : for old times sake wo n't you give my heart a break ? |
| 10 | God has placed on my heart a real desire to be involved in training , encouraging and equipping Christians to know their God intimately as a Father , and to share my faith in evangelism , taking the Gospel to the people . |
| 11 | My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows : … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Listen to what happened to me , ’ I said , and I told my story a third time . |
| 14 | Back to the basins to give my hair a brush-through : I liked myself spiky , hedgehog , but I wanted a will-brushed hedgehog . |
| 15 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 16 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 17 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 18 | In warm I might give my hair a wash . |
| 19 | But in my case an exception was made , and girls from the year below mine were moved above me in House Order , as well as being made monitors who had special privileges . |
| 20 | To meet fully matured politicians of the higher quality at a time when I was still young enough to sharpen my wits on their arguments and dialectics was a real — and in my case an undeserved — pleasure . |
| 21 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 22 | Although the term ‘ fungus ’ is often used by fishkeepers and it appears regularly in all the books , it is still in my experience a disease organism that falls fairly low in the ‘ Top Ten ’ fish disease ratings . |
| 23 | However , after protests , the EC has postponed the measure until January 1 , giving my baker a reprieve — if temporary . |
| 24 | I made my decision a long time ago , and now I have no rightful place in their lives . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'll give my mum a heart attack one of these nights , ’ Anne said . |
| 26 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 27 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 28 | I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery . |
| 29 | I paint my sister a lot . |
| 30 | ‘ No , of course it does n't ; I 'm a fool to think a woman like you would give my sister a second thought . ’ |