Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
| 2 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 3 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 5 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 6 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 7 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 8 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 9 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 10 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 11 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 12 | No , take them down a bit |
| 13 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 14 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 15 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 16 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 17 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 18 | Of course , there are those young people whom only a parent could love . |
| 19 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 20 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |
| 22 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 23 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 24 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 25 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 26 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 27 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 28 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 29 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 30 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |