Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 2 | Well , I nearly fell off , that 's all , and it gave me foot a bit of a twinge . |
| 3 | We get some of our funding from the Home Office , but we certainly do n't cost them £1,000 a week — nowhere near . ’ |
| 4 | He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now . |
| 5 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 6 | Q : I bought my PC a month ago , so I do n't know very much about it yet . |
| 7 | Phillis played it all the time : for old times sake wo n't you give my heart a break ? |
| 8 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 9 | In warm I might give my hair a wash . |
| 10 | Although the term ‘ fungus ’ is often used by fishkeepers and it appears regularly in all the books , it is still in my experience a disease organism that falls fairly low in the ‘ Top Ten ’ fish disease ratings . |
| 11 | However , after protests , the EC has postponed the measure until January 1 , giving my baker a reprieve — if temporary . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'll give my mum a heart attack one of these nights , ’ Anne said . |
| 13 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 14 | I paint my sister a lot . |
| 15 | I thought it would be cool : - ) Now EVERYONE can have one … steal my thunder a bit , I think the away top with HUMPHRIES on the back will be cool for work : - ) |
| 16 | I deserve my £1,800 a week handout to pay for mansion |
| 17 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 18 | I clean my teeth a lot , you see . ’ |
| 19 | I take as typical of my difficulty a sentence from item six in your summary of your campaign : ‘ The need for the silent majority to assert itself in order that politicians and judges fully understand the true feelings of the public . ’ |
| 20 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 21 | Saved my neck a couple of times , then bought it . ’ |
| 22 | About my neck a sylke scarfe do I tye . |
| 23 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 24 | ‘ I came out of my apprenticeship a week ago , ’ he began . |
| 25 | He does admit , though , that ‘ with Peter there , it probably weighs on my mind a bit . |
| 26 | That 's that 's cleared my mind a bit . |
| 27 | The word ‘ milkmaid ’ brings to my mind a picture implanted there perhaps by a song we used to sing at school : |
| 28 | I mention all this because it 's been in my mind a lot recently . |
| 29 | ‘ I was heavily involved before , but now the job is on my mind a lot - it never leaves you . ’ |
| 30 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |