Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 2 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 7 | It says no women check their cars twice a week , although 15 per cent of men do . |
| 8 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 9 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even with the support of Meretz and the five Arab seats , of which Hadash took three and the Arab Democratic Party ( ADP ) two , this would give Labour and its supporters only a one-seat majority unless Rabin was able to gain support among the 16 religious party Knesset members . |
| 12 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 13 | I 'm massaging and grooming her feet twice a day now because lying in bed is creating some roughness on her heels and the sides of her feet that could get inflamed and sore if we 're not careful . ’ |
| 14 | But we do have a number of private accounts as well , where people buy a lot of flowers and prefer to pay their bills once a month . ’ |
| 15 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |
| 16 | His hand touching hers in the absolute darkness , his fingertips lingering on her fingertips just a moment longer than was necessary , was just about the most sensual feeling she had ever had . |
| 17 | Both development officers continued to see all their workers once a week , either individually ( as in Ipswich , or in Newham for workers who could not attend a meeting ) or as a group . |
| 18 | This woman has n't a bean , so she 's going to pose for my wife and her girlfriends once a month or so , and she 'll get the classes thrown in free . |
| 19 | Prisoners have a full-day visit from their families once a week . |
| 20 | Compaction may cause fine particles to move into direct contact with their neighbours so a high initial porosity may become drastically reduced with burial . |
| 21 | My wife has an art class for her friends twice a week , and this was their model … ’ |
| 22 | She speaks to her friends quite a lot |
| 23 | The government has promised to complete the review within three months and make its results public a month later . |
| 24 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 25 | I know my standards have dropped because with Sharon I used to change her clothes twice a day . |
| 26 | Having an ‘ eye ’ at each end of its body , this Oscar cichlid gives its predators only a fifty-fifty chance of striking its head . |
| 27 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 28 | There chips just a tiny bit well you see you do n't do it with style the way me and Emma do take you to Palma sit on a bench eating them ! |
| 29 | Samuel Richardson , though not a subscriber to the first volume , had taken an interest in Leapor , who was in his eyes perhaps a more tragic Pamela . |
| 30 | Winning the world championship is one of the main ambitions of the season , but being No 1 is more important to me ; it shows a player for his performances over a year , as opposed to two weeks . ’ |