Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm offering ye a fiver a short time . ’ |
| 2 | Is she a supervisor a chargehand or summat ? |
| 3 | Rees Jones says people have told him that this is a golf course for intellectuals … which means you have to think everytime you a play a shot and that 's what he set out to create |
| 4 | People would have been going , ‘ Are you a sister a cousin , or what ? ' ’ |
| 5 | I think I could afford to pay you a rhinu a day . ’ |
| 6 | We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , ’ she whispered in his ear as he collapsed to his knees by the bed and clasped her in his arms , ‘ I ca n't promise you a son every time you 're away ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You all live here in comfort , protected by people who care about you , who feed and clothe you , and pay you a wage every week as well as giving you a home … ’ |
| 9 | We will send you a statement every April and October showing how much you have in Saver Plus . |
| 10 | Whichever option you choose , we will send you a statement every three months which will show all transactions on the Account and let you know just where you stand . |
| 11 | I 'll buy you a coffee every day this week for that . ’ |
| 12 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
| 13 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 14 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |
| 15 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 16 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 17 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 18 | I told him , about seventeen pounds a week , and he offered me a pound a week less with no payment , but free petrol . ’ |
| 19 | they sent me erm or sent me a load a load of material with it . |
| 20 | ‘ He did n't 'alf like them , he said he 'd give me a penny every time I showed them . |
| 21 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 22 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 23 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 24 | ‘ You called me a dog the first time you saw me , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ He gave me a fright the look of him . ’ |
| 26 | Gim me a gram a day and I 'll stay numb . ’ |
| 27 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 28 | He send 's me a paper the old boy |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 30 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |