Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 've got a staff of a thousand you do n't need everybody going around . |
| 2 | In the case of a 286 you usually need some special hardware — an expanded memory EMS or LIM board . |
| 3 | If you had ten out of a hundred you can cancel it have you done cancelling ? |
| 4 | One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah . |
| 5 | Yes I suppose I 've had ten points behind anybody else , but erm that 's not too bad , you know , out of a hundred it 's reasonable . |
| 6 | So that 's three quarters of a million she 's paid for it then , we 're half ? |
| 7 | So the head of a major I ca n't think of the guy 's name and he just had a major acquisition and this guy was |
| 8 | ‘ Well if a guitar solo is played right it can sound absolutely great , but 99 times out of a 100 they wo n't sound great and they 're a waste of time . |
| 9 | The Curator had laughed and told him , ‘ Mr Wolski you really are a bit of a revolutionary you know . |
| 10 | When all of a sudden they dropped a bomb and I thought there was n't at all , you see , and no siren had gone , nothing , you see , and there was broad daylight . |
| 11 | Of a sudden she looked old . |
| 12 | Of a sudden he sat down in a chair and Joe , looking at him , had a strange thought , for his mind was saying that if men could cry , Martin would be crying now . |
| 13 | Of a sudden he was running , flying up the stairs . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better find out just how much of a romantic you are , Dr Blake . ’ |
| 15 | That 's sort of a crunchy I think , a crickl crackly thing . |
| 16 | Cos as I say it 's a mixture of a few you see . |
| 17 | By the time we have fed the second and , thank God , final group of a dozen we are frozen . |
| 18 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 19 | Christmas Eve and in he come said he got the , I , he do n't recognise , they do n't recognise him , he got like a black he says Ho , Ho , are you all behaving yourselves , Victoria sitting there giving it yeah |
| 20 | You know the publicity from us would be like a small I do n't know what size , just a small leaflet . |
| 21 | Make her sound like a complete you know |
| 22 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 23 | Well it 's like , like a all you want to do is |
| 24 | That 's right it was like a huge I say huge I do n't know how many gallons it would hold , it was a fair copper . |
| 25 | It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there . |
| 26 | I 'm looking now for a nice you know . |
| 27 | Well for a hundred we can get a reasonable amount . |
| 28 | for a sixty I 'm , I get , I end up getting er seven . |
| 29 | For a split-second they both froze . |
| 30 | For a different I 'm going to That 's right . |