Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
| 2 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
| 3 | • I have also resisted the temptation to dose up the pond every time I saw a fish flick or flash . |
| 4 | She moved on , and into a quagmire of silt which she had to wade through , making obscene sucking noises every time she took a step . |
| 5 | Conspicuously active since his election six commons speeches , 60 questions , two surgeries a week he defends a 1,975 majority against the same two major party candidates . |
| 6 | The ferret , after all , can never be very far away and the speed of the search , and the prompt response of the locating device the moment it receives a signal , makes finding the ferret quite easy . |
| 7 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 8 | There will be a membership fee for the year and you will also have to pay a fee every time you enter a race meeting . |
| 9 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 10 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 11 | A couple of times a month she has a drink with the women at work , which is the only time she goes out . |
| 12 | She had brought a lot of her own furniture with her and would sigh and shake her head every time she found a burn or a ring mark on it , and tell me how she had always polished her things ‘ until you could see your face in them ’ . |
| 13 | I think about stopping every day ; I 've tried hypnosis , acupuncture , pills , potions , chewing-gum — even aversion therapy , where you get an electric shock every time you take a drag . |
| 14 | The teacher , with a white-coated scientist standing by him , was then instructed to teach the learner a series of linked words , and to punish him by delivering a shock every time he made a mistake . |
| 15 | Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him . |
| 16 | At CNN every hour they want a live piece , say something different , so they 're under a lot of pressure . |
| 17 | They have an apparatus that solves the necessary equations , just as our brains unconsciously solve equations every time we catch a ball . |
| 18 | Sir James Hanson 's Hanson Trust gave £82,000 to the cause the year he became a Lord . |
| 19 | Of course when you seam a garment you lose a couple of stitches into the seam . |
| 20 | ‘ No , you ca n't go to the doctor every time you get a bit of wind . |
| 21 | — Peter Greenfield still has nightmares every time he visits a hospital , reliving the moments when he and his twin sister Miriam were used in the unspeakable experiments of Dr Mengele in Auschwitz . |
| 22 | Turning reality on its head is now the objective of a national coach who is made to understand it is far from an ideal world every time he picks a Scotland squad . |
| 23 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 24 | Afterwards , Maclean said : ‘ I have a nightmare every time I see a woman up there in the chair . |
| 25 | You can do the same if you note the time every occasion you get a bite or a fish , and fish a water for long enough . |
| 26 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |