Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |
| 2 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 3 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 4 | After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 6 | Should eat them about a quarter at a time . |
| 7 | You made me completely a woman |
| 8 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 9 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 10 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 11 | In a new project with the local community the pupils from Rydon School , Storrington , undertook a community programme whereby they were allocated a Sussexdown resident and visited them twice a month . |
| 12 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 13 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 14 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 17 | I mean you mi then you might have said , well actually I want someone here a bit quicker and then they would have done something else . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I want you upstairs a moment , ’ she said . |
| 20 | When she became too ill and breathless to come to the surgery , I visited her once a week . |
| 21 | In truth , I found her rather a pain on the subject and merely parried her constant questions about my job-hunting activities . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd worked with him about four years ago and helped him quite a bit . |
| 23 | Erm but dad visits him quite a lot . |
| 24 | When you visit a club , why not ask the views of people who actually know something about the place and not some ageing promoter who only visits it once a month ? |
| 25 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
| 26 | I 've enjoyed it quite a lot . |
| 27 | Mark jams his under a cushion . |
| 28 | Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’ |
| 29 | Which is good , because Cliff Gallup used it quite a bit , too , and this month and next , we 're going to try his solos from Gene Vincent 's Race With The Devil . |
| 30 | He liked him very much , and felt the enchantment , and found it almost a spell . |