Example sentences of "[pers pn] every [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , you can opt to have the income paid out to you every six months , currently in May and November [ subject to the Terms and Conditions ] . |
| 2 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | S see you every four weeks for the next couple of months , When are you |
| 4 | " I shall ring you every few days anyway , to make sure you 're okay . " |
| 5 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 6 | She thanked me every five minutes or so until we 'd finished . |
| 7 | I do know I 'm you inform me every five minutes . |
| 8 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 9 | ‘ Hello Joe , where are you going ? ’ would stop me every 50 yards ( unless you wear a turban they are convinced you have come from the US ) . |
| 10 | Back at Stuart Street I found Fenella and Lisabeth and Miranda and Doogie busy decorating the staircase with brightly coloured tinsel streamers which had clumps of real holly tied into them every eighteen inches or so . |
| 11 | Each platoon had placed two men on guard duty , with orders to change them every two hours , to ensure that no one went without rest . |
| 12 | Ca n't image them every two years |
| 13 | Let's say that you give one of your people a six month project to work on , you 've agreed with them as part of the parameters that you 're going to check with them every two months on it , where do you put those reminders to yourself ? |
| 14 | Insurers who used to assess their premiums every year , are now having to reassess them every six months and in some cases every four . |
| 15 | With lean production , they say , Japanese manufacturers more of less doubled the number of models they offered between 1982 and the '90s , at the same time replacing them every four years . |
| 16 | Our parents live some distance away , she only gets to see them every few weeks , but I 'm close to hand , I 'm here to listen . |
| 17 | Use cotton dust-covers — white — and wash them every few months . |
| 18 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 19 | Usually I only see them every three months or so . |
| 20 | He had begun by putting Maldita in a stable with no straw and taking water and feed to her every eight hours , then , when she went for him , immediately removing them . |
| 21 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
| 22 | Now he leaves again — like he leaves her every few months . |
| 23 | I would suggest she baths him every four weeks in Vitacoat Gold Seal and uses Velvet coat spray on his feathers and skirt every day . |
| 24 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 25 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 26 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 27 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 28 | This meant Mr Packwood had to bottle feed him every three hours when he was first born . |
| 29 | It save it every nine minutes or something , it 's got a backup save , you know on the |
| 30 | the printer would do that , but your machine here would be linked into a storage computer storage system here at Mansfield which every now and again it sends all the information down the telephone lines to headquarters , and it 's done every is it every two hours ? |