Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All made a commitment to attend the group once a week for 13 weeks . |
| 2 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 3 | Should n't have give him that tin , that 's why dogs are that 's why you 're instructed to feed a dog once a day or whatever it is . |
| 4 | He has a snow scooter , and enough cash to hire a boat twice a year to move his reindeer on to an island . |
| 5 | Remembering a scratch match played in 1879 , which had provided plenty of fun for both players and spectators , Bill Lister had an idea : ‘ Thinks I ta meself , if nobbut t' tradesmen cud be gotten together to play a match once a year , ah 'm sewer it wod goa , an' 'specially if it war ta tak' place at t' feast . ’ |
| 6 | Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day . |
| 7 | No man finds it easy to sleep the night before a battle , Charlie had been told , and many used the time to write long letters to their loved ones at home ; some even had the courage to make a will . |
| 8 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 9 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 10 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 11 | ‘ I like to blitz the village twice a week . |
| 12 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 13 | While this is a considerable improvement on the former method , it does nothing to reduce the paper-work involved or to shorten the time before a buyer is entered on the company 's register and receives his share certificate — which will take weeks and sometimes months . |
| 14 | We used to have a bath once a week . |
| 15 | Well you 'll have to move the chair forward a bit . |
| 16 | Home Office figures showed plans to lengthen the time before a prisoner became eligible for parole and to introduce longer parole periods would mean the prison poulation could expand by between 4,000 and 5,000 . |
| 17 | Gentlemen in that parish Conveen & Appoint such of their Number as they see proper in rexive Districts to make a search twice a week throwout sd . |
| 18 | Gentlemen in that parish Conveen & Appoint such of their Number as they see proper in rexive Districts to make a search twice a week throwout sd . |