Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ?
2 The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place .
3 Although we go out quite a lot , we just go for walks .
4 I was born in Buckinghamshire , my father was a farm worker , so we moved round quite a bit .
5 and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister
6 You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit .
7 Stuart and I went out together a few times .
8 She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week .
9 Not what one expected of the wife of the senior partner , Tim observed , thinking smugly of his own immaculately turned-out Patrice , who would refuse to eat if she put on even an extra pound and who would as soon leave the house naked as without make-up .
10 Tukuse the only one where you move the choker or if you speak up just a little bit .
11 If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally .
12 And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity .
13 Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go .
14 ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says .
15 It might be an idea actually if we moved out just a little bit Tracey .
16 The foreman of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers was with him and they came out twice a day to the lip of Steep Ridgery , early in the morning and again towards sunset , to look out at the smoke .
17 They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight .
18 Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly .
19 Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report .
20 Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away .
21 If it comes off once a season it is worth it .
22 He is the managing director of a Highland company which , since he took over exactly a year ago , has increased its workforce from four to 14 and its turnover from £40,000 to £400,000 a year .
23 After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light .
24 Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain .
25 I thought mine had n't come out , then when I went out there a little while ago it had come out , but so late in the year moved it , it was all in big clump under the oh I 've got great big clump under the tree and not one of them , either of them had a , a bloom on , so I said useless ,
26 Or is it when you get in maybe a quarter of an inch … and then you withdraw like a bat out of hell ?
27 The tension in her slackened and gave way to curiosity as she pulled out instead a gold-embossed card .
28 His eyelashes flickered into life as he looked up again a shy , delicate glance , like a cornered deer .
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