Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
2 | Well we had a what , we had what they call the banquet which was fifteen pound a head . |
3 | But we had the erm banquet which was fifteen pound a head , and that included your sweet and everything . |
4 | Could you put you 're head back a bit , move ! |
5 | How the chancellor of the exchequer performs in his new job could decide who is prime minister a year from now |
6 | She was busy lighting a lamp . |
7 | ‘ Help yourself , Piper , ’ shouts a Frenchman who was busy placing a heap of straw under a pig hanging by its hind legs from the branch of a tree . |
8 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
9 | T we were thirty pound a week less . |
10 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
11 | There 's one thing a man |
12 | ‘ There was one train a week , we did not have the flexibility we had with Speedlink — it was not economical . ’ |
13 | There was last century a question as to whether Blacks could be ordained , but they have been . |
14 | and then there was another man a way up Street and and he 'd made the claw carved the claw and balls . |
15 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
16 | It 's twelve pound a head . |
17 | from eighty five , one itself , it 's dec it 's negative clearance a decision from the commission that you do n't fall within eighty five at all |
18 | It 's two pound a year for the . |
19 | I was gon na say it 's ten pound a night each at that place we saw that was lovely were n't it ? |
20 | It is high time a border poll was taken with all citizens of voting age here asked ( a ) their religion and ( b ) whether they want a united Ireland or not , to find out just how many Catholics really do want the British to leave . |
21 | could n't help thinking if it was modern day a woman that 's manically depressed dreamt that , dreamt she had , she was definitely mental , she would be stuck in a a mental home and just kept under with er |
22 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
23 | ‘ You said it was straightforward policing a moment ago . |
24 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
25 | He was busy forging a letter in the handwriting of Claire Clairmont . |