Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 2 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 3 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 4 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 5 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |
| 6 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 7 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 8 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 9 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 10 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 11 | Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me . |
| 12 | We can actually er use various actual computer equipment er open systems er recently new development as well which basically a lot of companies have been inputting their share resources to develop this area . |
| 13 | Your bank may be able to help , especially if contracts are signed and exchanged and its only a matter of a problem with completion dates . |
| 14 | Close-ups range from those which include the whole of the head and shoulders of a human subject to those in which only a part of the head is shown in ‘ big close-up ’ ( BCU ) . |
| 15 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 16 | Particular to graphite intercalation compounds is their tendency to form periodically stacked high-stage compounds in which only a fraction of the interlayer spaces of the graphite host lattice is filled with intercalated layers . |
| 17 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 18 | The green alliance of the Green party and the Generation Ecologie , which only a couple of months ago was being credited with nearly 20 per cent of the vote , suffered a severe disappointment in seeing its projected score drop to 8.5 per cent — five less than its vote in last year 's regional elections . |
| 19 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |
| 20 | Selection bias is specially important in family studies of diseases in which only a minority of the cases have a genetic origin . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , other sources say Microsoft Corp , which only a matter of weeks ago denied that its Windows NT offering would undergo XPG3 branding ( UX No 403 ) , is now also committed to gaining an XPG3 shield to take into its upcoming battle with Unix . |
| 22 | McGeechan believes that Sole has set standards of performance with his pace and mobility in the loose which only a handful of British players , such as Brian Moore of England , are currently emulating . |
| 23 | Instead of frantically adding new features , which only a handful of customers may ever use , it is now concentrating on making tasks easier and faster to perform . |
| 24 | Although many towns and housing estates are served by live and dynamic churches , many are not , and even within a small community of 12,000 like ours in Cranham , there can still be whole estates from which only a handful of people are Christians . |
| 25 | Up to 500 were in the largest establishment , Kings Bush Prison in London , but most were in small town and provincial lock-ups in which only a handful of prisoners were kept . |
| 26 | Their bodies , although all different , had a sort of common denominator ugliness which only a group of undressed men can produce . |
| 27 | A file in which only a number of selected attributes have indexes provided is known as partially inverted . |
| 28 | But when you 're up there , my darling , its just a case of them or you . |
| 29 | we captured them , great laugh about that , really is , its just a , its just a weekend of piss up basically . |
| 30 | Sometimes a midshipman 's place was sheer necessity , as in the case of a son of an Angus freeholder named David Lyell who found himself involuntarily a member of the Royal Navy . |