Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated .
2 Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm .
3 At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school .
4 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
5 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
6 Well look at a miner I mean if he worked three days a week he might only get thirty shillings , in tho very very very seldom worked a full week .
7 ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’
8 For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week .
9 He would cover Scotland in a sea of flames , and teach those traitors a lesson they would never forget .
10 If you start edging up to ten cups a day you will become over stimulated and your heart and circulatory system will be affected .
11 They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not
12 The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive .
13 The automatic clothes dryer does not save a woman the four or five hours a week she used to spend at the clothes line , if , for instance , she runs her washing machine and dryer every day …
14 Thirty nine days a year I 'll be having .
15 ‘ At twenty miles a day we should reach Tam by February thirteenth , and if you 're not there by then , Geoff , we 'll be there without you . ’
16 Four times a year you will receive a superb , full colour magazine called Birds .
17 Again , three or four times a week he would push himself to the limit , galloping across the countryside with the hounds , risking life and limb in another of the most physically exacting sports known to man .
18 The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of .
19 The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again .
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