Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] every [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing a financially bleak Christmas , he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys . |
| 2 | I could put everything on my back between villages because , this side of Adrar , they occurred almost every twenty miles . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin , 62 , returned to the Kremlin yesterday after a weekend spent contemplating his humiliation last week by the mainly conservative Congress of People 's Deputies , which rejected virtually every one of his proposals . |
| 4 | Grains were also grown on chenas , forest land which was cleared , burnt and cultivated once every five or ten years . |
| 5 | By 1907 Polish financial institutions , though cramped by legal restrictions , had become so effective that finance flowing through them allowed almost every Polish farm in Pomerania of 5 hectares or more access to some form of farm machinery on a shared or collective basis . |
| 6 | It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months . |
| 7 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 8 | ‘ The phone always rang once every three weeks . ’ |
| 9 | You broke nearly every important bone in your body as a result of your driving . |
| 10 | There are certain topics about which I have nothing to say , and they covered almost every one of them that night . |
| 11 | It was the small group of assorted vehicles which formed the basis of a collection which at its peak in the late 1960s numbered over 60 , and covered almost every possible type of cart and carriage . |
| 12 | A TEENAGER who broke almost every important bone in his body when his speeding car collided with a van escaped being locked up yesterday . |
| 13 | It was the final straw ; she could see he knew everything , everything , and that took away every last hidden ace she had ever hoped to possess . |
| 14 | Ordering Smith to be detained for life , Mr Justice Rougier said : ‘ This offence contained almost every aggravating feature it is possible to think of . |
| 15 | and took almost every little thing he owned — |
| 16 | Copies reached almost every Royalist household and many that were not . |
| 17 | On the fourth day Jennifer put together every last farthing they possessed and went across to Fowey to visit the apothecary , returning with a malodorous syrup which her mother vomited up within seconds of swallowing . |
| 18 | This is a code for diseases and injuries , produced by the World Health Organization and revised approximately every ten years . |
| 19 | Vividly described as ‘ gull 's nests ’ and ‘ humming rookeries ’ , they occupied almost every available nook and cranny . |
| 20 | Yes , Cosson : a sensitive forebear deleted the offending CH from the inscription on the pillar in the restaurant , which now reads CO ON and the Cossons lived happily every after . |
| 21 | Despite its international character , the conference continues to function under the supervision of a Commission of State of the Netherlands established by Royal Decree in 1897 , and the Netherlands Government bears the costs of the Sessions of the Conference held generally every four years ; however , the budget of its Permanent Bureau is approved by the diplomatic representatives in The Hague of Member States . |