Example sentences of "every [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do the same if you note the time every occasion you get a bite or a fish , and fish a water for long enough . |
| 2 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 3 | It 's not every day I survive a plane crash ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not every day I find a mermaid in the bath . ’ |
| 5 | He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager . |
| 6 | So I made a roster out for the ro for the supervisors which meant that every week they got a rest day . |
| 7 | Every flight forward was an adventure , every stance he took a place from which to see new things . |
| 8 | Every morning he prepares a range of at least 20 sweets , which go down a real treat . |
| 9 | ‘ Every weekend I get a rush of Indians wanting 1 notes for weddings , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Also , as you all know , the festive season is fast approaching and in Glasgow the Committee will be helping to sell raffle tickets to raise funds for a good cause , every year we hold a raffle on the day of the Christmas lunch and we are hoping that this year we will raise a substantial amount . |
| 11 | I mean every year we have a campaign from about the middle of January to the end of February where we promote British holidays through our shop windows , and in fact I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks and I would say we have spent almost a hundred thousand pounds on partner advertising for Lunn Poly — book your holiday at Lunn Poly for U K holidays . |
| 12 | Take directors who own their own companies : every year they have a choice as to how much of the profits they want to take as earnings and how much as dividends on their shareholding . |
| 13 | Every year I put a band together when I 'm off and just play local clubs . ’ |
| 14 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 15 | In some cases the hotels are party to the commission arrangements : the Savoy , for instance , pays its own concierges commission every time they book a car through its own limousine company . |
| 16 | When you cram people into flat-warrens , they ca n't start running around poking their nose in every time they hear a noise next door . |
| 17 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 18 | A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’ |
| 19 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 20 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 21 | People wanting to quit should keep a diary of every time they have a cigarette before they actually quit , says psychologist Dr Allan Norris . |
| 22 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 23 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 24 | However , every time we had a break into there half we were hacked down . |
| 25 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 26 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 27 | They have an apparatus that solves the necessary equations , just as our brains unconsciously solve equations every time we catch a ball . |
| 28 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
| 29 | We have to remember that every time we make a purchase , we are converting our assets , which are very compact , and have the ability to maintain us through the interest they accrue , into bulky or fragile items which require maintenance , space and insurance . |
| 30 | In originally filling our tank , and every time we make a water change — which is a vital part of the filtration process — we could add substances that are potentially lethal to our fish . |