Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter , it was a wild weekend , and some time soon I 'll return to the scene of the crime and see if I can make the princely pond a home fit for a frog . |
| 2 | In february a woman patient committed suicide by jumping from a tower block window . |
| 3 | Normally £19.50 , they have reduced the price to £4.95 a gift most children 's pocket money will stretch to . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , just give the kids a balloon each , ’ she told him . |
| 5 | The nursery is £35 a week cheaper then paying for a nanny . |
| 6 | If you have any further donations of clothes and intend passing them onto Jean at Church would you either leave them in your car boot or give Jean a call first , so she can pick them up … ! |
| 7 | The offence in this was ‘ an attempt to place on an aircraft a device likely to destroy or damage the aircraft , contrary to the Aviation Security Act 1982 ’ — an inchoate offence , and one worded without any express reference to the endangerment of lives . |
| 8 | ROBERT Priddle , under-secretary at the Department a Energy this up at the Sizewell inquiry to bare the soul of his department 's strategy . |
| 9 | As at all schools a playground full of youngsters was bedlam . |
| 10 | Mm , cut their heads a bit open . |
| 11 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 12 | But US companies only ploughed back into new investment a sum equal to their profits . |
| 13 | Fastback Plus Unix product marketing manager Neil Norton figures they 'll start moving 1,000 units a month direct to some large customers and through their channels . |
| 14 | The speed judgment task was included simply to give subjects a task comparable to that used in Study 2 . |
| 15 | BRITONS spent £37 million eating a record 860 million crumpets last year — well over twice as many as we scoffed only six years ago . |
| 16 | Er in other words , er when I was fifteen I got sixpence a week extra and a little more from the man I worked with . |
| 17 | She would represent herself as an angel of light and make her kind master and benefactor a devil incarnate . |
| 18 | I think we 'll give Cornish Home Rule a go this time . |
| 19 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |
| 20 | IT 'S a myth that the three words a woman most likes to hear are ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 21 | You may find the boat a bit cold when winter really sets in . ’ |
| 22 | This included spending almost twenty six a head more on secondary education and nearly five pound a head more on special education . |
| 23 | Mrs Aughton wants the County Council to send Steven and Jason to the fifteen thousand pound a year private West Country Boarding School in Exeter which caters exclusively for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 24 | I was gon na say it 's ten pound a night each at that place we saw that was lovely were n't it ? |
| 25 | Twelve pound a month minimum premium , or a hundred and twenty if they 're paying it annually . |
| 26 | Based on twelve thousand pound benefit , for the thirteen week deferred period , on the inflation proof plan , so it 's the best plan , you 're running it from , for thirty years , on a thousand pound a month guaranteed income if you 're off sick or ill . |
| 27 | He 's got six hundred pound a month clear . |
| 28 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 29 | A pound a week extra ? |
| 30 | I said I do n't know how you dare sit there and say you have n't paid that Alice , she 's paid a fiver I says I 'd be ashamed , I said I wish mine was only that , so she phoned up to make arrangements to pay it a pound a week thirty two pound , that 's all hers is Wendy , for the year |