Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I clean my teeth a lot , you see . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I intended to ‘ exploit ’ my popularity in my country in order to impose upon my readers a book centred on the Ashkenazi civilisation , history , language and frame of mind , all of which are virtually unknown in Italy , except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth , Bellow , Singer , Malamud , Potok , and of course yourself . |
| 5 | To save my knees a bit I slid down onto my left hip , leaning my head and my left side against the tree . |
| 6 | In their article ‘ Britain is set to abandon nuclear reprocessing ’ ( This Week , p 567 , 3 March ) , Fred Pearce and Roger Milne have lent my words a meaning more than they will bear . |
| 7 | ‘ I think I 'll just stretch my legs a bit , ’ Zen announced . |
| 8 | Of his picture of refuse — at once alluring and repellant — Penn writes : ‘ Evening as I walked from my studio to the train station I saw at my feet a treasure of the city 's refuse , intriguing distorted forms of colour , stains and typography . |
| 9 | Of his pictures of refuse — at once alluring and repellent — Penn writes : ‘ Evening as I walked from my studio to the train station I saw at my feet a treasure of the city 's refuse , intriguing distorted forms of colour , stains and typography . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 11 | I have on my shelves a novel published some years ago , entitled Mr Adam . |
| 12 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 13 | ‘ It would only be occasional and short term — purely to give my parents a break . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I wanted to be nearer home to be able to give my parents a hand with Jennifer . |
| 15 | I 'm starting to lose my bearings a bit — and my ball-bearings as well , come to that . ’ |
| 16 | That 's why I do n't want I 'd better not fold the paper-until I 've worked out my ideas a bit more . ’ |
| 17 | I wiggled my hips a lot ! |
| 18 | I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room ; Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear . |
| 19 | ‘ It 'd do my prospects a bit of good . ’ |
| 20 | Another couple tried it on one of my trains a month or so ago . |
| 21 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 23 | I just worry about my children a lot . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 25 | I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 26 | You 'll give my children a complex before you 're through . ’ |
| 27 | The union fights for he says , and the union 's a but I 'm one of these employers who paying them , my men a plus rate , so I 'm paying men sixpence plus over the normal rate so there was no difficulty there . |
| 28 | I just wanted to warm my hands a bit that 's all . ’ |
| 29 | And er so she goes to Guatemala , and she goes for my er one of my daughters a wedding present , and she er a lovely dress , and she bought it in Guatemala for thirty pounds , she . |
| 30 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |