Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cook at school and make dishes for my family once a week . ’ |
| 2 | My wife has an art class for her friends twice a week , and this was their model … ’ |
| 3 | She 's been off her face quite a lot actually . |
| 4 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 5 | Instead of us , you know , instead of it blocking out for our benefit , I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow a hell of a lot of insulation , in here |
| 6 | If the patient failed to attend for their clinic/colonoscopy then a repeat appointment was made . |
| 7 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 8 | It was a bit of a shock , you see , coming back and finding everyone had moved out , the happiest time of your life just a pile of rubble . |
| 9 | In France the later head of the foreign ministry archives , the comte d'Hauterive , set up in 1800 a school for this purpose which , like its predecessor almost a century earlier , stressed heavily the study and analysis of diplomatic documents . |
| 10 | Boxer pup Toby was snatched near her Blackpool home a fortnight ago . |
| 11 | Although the young man and Mrs H. denied rectal intercourse , it is probable that this was the site that had served as a source of the infection , which had presumably originated with her husband over a year previously . |
| 12 | In fact , they are not separate rings but one continuous spiral with its coils only an inch or.so apart . |
| 13 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 14 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |
| 15 | One of the conditions is such that it would be advisable for solicitor shareholders ( particularly in a company with only a few shareholders ) to appoint in their will only a solicitor or solicitors as personal representative in respect of their shares . |
| 16 | To involve people in Billy Graham Crusades we asked for a specific and limited commitment , something that people understood and could accept : a prayer meeting in their home once a week , for five weeks only ; giving a monthly gift to the Crusade , for six months only . |
| 17 | But a friend found her hanging in her room just a week into her course . |
| 18 | In its place only a sense of duty and a wish to be of help to the people she had come to love kept Shelley from despair . |
| 19 | Prisoners have a full-day visit from their families once a week . |
| 20 | It was curiously ordered after the kitchen , with canvasses in neat stacks along the walls , and in the centre a table , clearly from its size once a billiard table , covered in piles of drawings , pots of brushes , bottles and jars and a huge battered shallow leather case , full of tubes of paint like silver fish . |
| 21 | If in doubt the purchaser should insist that the vendor obtains from its shareholders either a consent or an acknowledgment that their consent is not required . |
| 22 | Apart from single letters , there is from his hand only a fragment of the History of Scotland , 1830 , complementing the galley and page proofs already in the national collection . |
| 23 | Sweetheart nor Buddie had spoken to him since he was called down from his room almost an hour ago . |
| 24 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 25 | It is a rather recent article in this publication and was drawn to my attention only a week or so ago . |
| 26 | And it started on my back quite a bit , three of four days ago , well it 's not just as bad but my arms are real bad . |
| 27 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 28 | She speaks to her friends quite a lot |
| 29 | STUDENT Lalita Ahuja , 19 , plunged 100ft to her death just an hour after registering at university , an inquest heard . |
| 30 | The hard core of Copernican astronomy would be the assumptions that the earth and the planets orbit a stationary sun and that the earth spins on its axis once a day . |