Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now they are out as well as all junk food , and I 'm only eating one meal a day . |
| 2 | The standard book on crime in non-Western countries , published in 1973 , asserts that social changes in developing countries in the mid-twentieth century are similar to those which ‘ suddenly produced extensive crime a century or more ago in Europe . ’ |
| 3 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 4 | I only smoke I only smoke one cigarette a day . |
| 5 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 6 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 7 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've only known each other a year . ’ |
| 9 | I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our |
| 10 | But if , with this job one , they could , they could say right well we 'll put you in a mental home where you will learn your skills , but you will only get ten pound a week |
| 11 | He would fast frequently , only take one meal a day , and would rise at one or two o'clock in the morning to pray . |
| 12 | Because a , a , a labourer w was only earning thirty shilling a week . |
| 13 | But this 'll tell you if you 're veering that way , so you can go , ooh , and perhaps spend one day a week on that , just to get into it , and the rest of it 's going to be managing my practice . |
| 14 | With DLT you can look at all files that will be deleted with your command before you execute it , so for those a little wary of deleting files , that feature alone makes this program a must . |
| 15 | We 've found out a lot , that bats live for thirty years and only have one baby a year , and usually only have a baby every second year . |
| 16 | You know , he said oh I , I usually only have one meal a day |
| 17 | Of course he would not think this encounter a dream . |
| 18 | Yeah , there 's a company that er imports from the south seas , all the fishes and they just charge two pound a pound . |
| 19 | I 'm not paying three pound a packet |
| 20 | Can I just erm , carry on working but just look this way a minute please . |
| 21 | In this time of cuts , and insecurity , is it not time that local authorities lost their insular image , approached their neighbours , exchanged ideas , pooled resources , and generally helped each other a lot more ? |
| 22 | Just having one calf a year to sell instead of a sizeable number like most farmers . |
| 23 | A lot of girls just had one bath a week . |
| 24 | The House of Lords gave its decision against " The Sunday Times " in July 1973 , and the European Court did not declare that decision a breach of the Convention until April 1979 — a delay of almost six years . |
| 25 | " The Secretary then intimated that he intended to resign and thereby give another Member a chance to act as Secretary . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 27 | Clare still swapped one night a week off with Stephanie and reported subsequent events to Gilda , who now managed the shoe shop : occasionally she visited Clare for an evening meal . |
| 28 | They usually function one evening a week in a local church hall or community centre and can undoubtedly play a most valuable role . |
| 29 | So there has to be — and we always exaggerate that space a bit . |
| 30 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |