Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My grant allows me £60 weekly a difference of £9 , I am now getting deeply in debt with my rent . |
| 2 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 3 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |
| 4 | She will make my misery more tolerable , my slavery only half-slavery , my exile less a banishment . |
| 5 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 6 | ‘ Well ’ , she agrees reluctantly , ‘ I 've got my tennis together a lot more this year , especially after the first three months . |
| 7 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 8 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 9 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 10 | It is a rather recent article in this publication and was drawn to my attention only a week or so ago . |
| 11 | And it started on my back quite a bit , three of four days ago , well it 's not just as bad but my arms are real bad . |
| 12 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 13 | ‘ I shave my head once a week ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It took my father about a year to settle down , ’ she says . |
| 15 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've missed my castaway rather a lot , you know . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I cook at school and make dishes for my family once a week . ’ |
| 18 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 19 | If in doubt the purchaser should insist that the vendor obtains from its shareholders either a consent or an acknowledgment that their consent is not required . |
| 20 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 21 | Not perhaps what you want to hear , particularly when you know that so many obstacles could be removed if loved ones or colleagues would be more honest and alter their stand just a fraction . |
| 22 | It says no women check their cars twice a week , although 15 per cent of men do . |
| 23 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 24 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 25 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 26 | ‘ But is Her Majesty really a collector ? ’ asks Heini Thyssen , to which the not unreasonable answer is ‘ not really ’ . |
| 27 | Instead of us , you know , instead of it blocking out for our benefit , I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow a hell of a lot of insulation , in here |
| 28 | Was her waist just a shade too stiff for so massive a skirt ? |
| 29 | I 'm massaging and grooming her feet twice a day now because lying in bed is creating some roughness on her heels and the sides of her feet that could get inflamed and sore if we 're not careful . ’ |
| 30 | As Table 3.4 shows , most of the women shop six times a week , only four shop two or three times a week , and no housewife does all her shopping once a week . |