Example sentences of "[pers pn] a certain [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 2 | That 'll get you a certain distance , but that pre-supposes you can actually bounce something back , does n't it ? |
| 3 | Erm , if you a certain reaction as well . |
| 4 | It is a written promise by your debtor to pay you a certain amount on a certain date . |
| 5 | Here again your reader , wanting to read the sort of book you are writing , will be prepared to give you a certain amount of latitude . |
| 6 | I did , however , box for Oxford for four years , winning against Cambridge three times , and this gave me a certain standing in the College . |
| 7 | I 'm , hope not , I put that back , one , now give me a certain country where . |
| 8 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 9 | He did that there and he blocked what looked like to me a certain goal . |
| 10 | I must say it gives me a certain amount of pleasure too . ’ |
| 11 | Jay had told me a certain amount — about the offers of money if he left the deal clear for someone else . |
| 12 | It 's as if somewhere in me a certain amount of good-will and kindness is manufactured every day ; and it must come out . |
| 13 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 14 | They were hardly yet the vast unbrokenly built-up areas of the twentieth century , though factory chimneys , often strung along river valleys , railway sidings , the monotony of discoloured brick and the pall of smoke which hung above them , gave them a certain coherence . |
| 15 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 16 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 17 | Bell Lawrie has 14,000 portfolio clients against Brewin Dolphin 's 18,000 and together they are one of the largest private client brokers in the UK which gives them a certain amount of clout . |
| 18 | you see , we used to when old shoes do you see , you could only use them a certain number of times by welding them up |
| 19 | Fortunately , Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was an enlightened and civilized person , who appreciated Haydn 's outstanding abilities , and allowed him a certain degree of freedom to pursue his own interests . |
| 20 | But , she says , she did think that Ken showed him a certain degree of respect . |
| 21 | His role as chief mourner gave him a certain glamour . |
| 22 | with him a certain clerk , who he said was the clerk of the justice of the Forest , and made a view of dogs which were not lawed throughout his bailiwick . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , perhaps , he had only risen to the rank of major but , nevertheless , this status had afforded him a certain standard of living , being waited on by subordinates , an agreeable social life and plenty of opportunity , whenever the fancy took him , of indulging in affairs with the opposite sex . |
| 24 | Foley gave him a certain look . |
| 25 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 26 | There are many reminiscences of the two men together at Carlyle Mansions — Hayward talkative and Eliot silent , Hayward persuading Eliot to quote from memory long passages from the Sherlock Holmes stories ( there was an element of putting his famous companion " on show " in such circumstances , although his disease allowed him a certain immunity from conventional social niceties ) , Eliot on occasions reciting his poetry with " an actor 's pleasure " I Eliot standing behind Hayward 's wheelchair at literary parties — almost at attention , as one observer noticed . |
| 27 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 28 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 29 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 30 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |