Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I 've lived for over a hundred years , ’ replied the little old man proudly . |
| 2 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 3 | Erm but you will be in that position , you may be so dedicated about something that you want to do like I did , I thoroughly enjoyed it it 's given me a great deal of pleasure , I 've worked with about a hundred different people over the years that have been in my dance group , all ages all personalities , we 've worked with some fantastic music which er erm we 've had to interpret . |
| 4 | I 've spoken to quite a few small businessmen who have been affected in the same way . |
| 5 | Go on , I put that in on Wednesday and I 've got to about a quarter of a tank again . |
| 6 | ‘ I have kept at least a score of them during my life here , till each decayed in turn . |
| 7 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 8 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 9 | Of this large number of people I have known of only a small handful of people who opted for a non-Christian funeral . |
| 10 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 11 | You have tried to create a new charge code using option 7.7.1 — Create Charge Code and you do not have MANAGER privilege or you have tried to offline a package using option 9.1.0 — Request Package To Be Offlined , and you are not the package manager . |
| 12 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 13 | I do n't think so but we 've specified in here a lady shall . |
| 14 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 15 | Now we 've distributed to over a thousand clubs . |
| 16 | So far in this chapter we have concentrated on only a small selection of the most creative and influential thinkers in theology from Schleiermacher to the turn of the century . |
| 17 | They 've lasted for nearly a fortnight . |