Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cover costs for the first £320 you may either pay us a non-refundable damage/loss excess waiver of £32 per yacht ( £7 each for a Share a Yacht or Pot Luck ) , or lodge ( direct with us , not through a travel agent ) a security deposit of £320 per yacht ( £70 each if sharing ) at the time of making your final payment . |
| 2 | I I was also thinking o of Veestol and and er the weapons going on and the mistakes anyway on on the developing a harrier replacement , is the R A F still interested in that as a feature a short take-off vertical take-off ? |
| 3 | And wh y'know we thought about this for a y'know a long time t and what we do want is a thin tier of bureaucracy . |
| 4 | Can I remember you that you 're supposed to be working on this for a minimum a minimum of four weeks for about three quarters of an hour a week minimum time ! |
| 5 | PAMELA : Angels and saints and all the host of heaven defend me ! [ aside ] I read this in a book a night or two ago . |
| 6 | But er it comes natural to a baby a swim does n't it ? |
| 7 | There was no smile on his face now , however , as he stepped out of the site of the Reconciliation — known euphemistically as the Retreat — to find Dowd sitting perched on a shooting-stick a few yards from the door . |
| 8 | So I did — and all of a sudden a man with a gun grabbed me round the neck and dragged me off . |
| 9 | I was sitting in a chair when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me : if a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight . |
| 10 | All of a sudden a voice called her name . |
| 11 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 12 | Quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation . |
| 13 | Not quite my feet just above my feet obviously I 've I 've got to move and it it 's more of a shuffling a quick shuffling movement . |
| 14 | Jolted out of these memories , he was startled by a movement a few yards ahead , along the jetty . |
| 15 | Elsewhere the A401 still very heavy in both directions between Abingdon and Dorchester-on-the-Thames due to an accident a little bit earlier on this evening . |
| 16 | ‘ You taught me that without a man a woman 's life is bleak , empty , and dangerous ; you taught me that a woman is n't complete without a man . |
| 17 | The video quickly became a mandatory part of the pop star 's armoury ; no performer , no matter how well established , could afford to ignore it ; the simple truth was that without a video a record stood less chance of becoming a hit . |
| 18 | What it is in general for a thing a to have the power to produce b is for it to be true that an individual property or properties of a , together with other things , will constitute a causal circumstance for b . |
| 19 | He became a bit morose for a while a bit inside himself which is fairly natural under the circumstances I suppose . |
| 20 | Bullets for those that could n't keep up and a fifth of a loaf a day for those that could . |
| 21 | So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax . |
| 22 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | As Mrs Pember Reeves commented : ‘ To manage a husband and six children in three rooms on round about a pound a week needs , first and foremost , wisdom and loving kindness , and after that as much cleanliness and order as can be squeezed in ’ . |
| 24 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 25 | When any of our neighbours wanted firewood theirs was from old fish boxes , but they had it cheap at a penny a bowlful , and ‘ no tick ’ , ‘ cash on the nail , ’ as he said firmly . |
| 26 | Nowadays it sells bottled lager which the trendies drink from the bottle because it 's what they think Canadians do , and Watneys bitter at a leg-and-an-arm a pint . |