Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 2 | ‘ Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’ |
| 3 | The Profitboss avoids frequent business lunches , trying hard to find two or three days a week when he can escape from his office at lunch-time , take a stroll , sit on a park bench and eat an apple , drink some mineral water and contemplate his next profit-making move . |
| 4 | Furthermore , she was n't too keen on having to shop and prepare three meals a day when she 'd been so organised before , and had done the minimum of cooking . |
| 5 | If you find these jobs a pleasure then it 's OK , but if you do n't like them and being ‘ in service ’ makes you unhappy you can make changes . |
| 6 | for people who are caring for their , their family we 've , we 've also said , that employers should recognise that people should be able to get , erm some kind of leave occasionally from their work er , perhaps ten days a year when they find the person they 're looking after is is sick . |
| 7 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |
| 8 | Forty five minutes a side so it 's erm |
| 9 | Good Christ , if they can make five miles a day when they have to fight through four systems of trenches and get right inside our Battle Zone , how bloody far d' you think they 'll go when we 've got nothing to hide behind except cow turds and haystacks ? ’ |
| 10 | Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | You may find that you need to do this exercise several times a day when you 're under pressure or feel tense . |
| 12 | Most universities do three or four essays a term here it 's twelve or sixteen |
| 13 | Fred told me you used to have shepherd 's pie three or four times a week when you were in music hall . |
| 14 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 15 | ITV was allowed about seven hours a day when it started in 1955 ; and long before the growth of home computers , VCRs and video games in the 1980s , of course , the TV set had become a main focus ( often the focus ) of the living room . |
| 16 | They trained seven days a week when it got really serious , ’ she said . |