Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 2 | Existing on a small pension , Doris ca n't afford a fridge and has to buy fresh food nearly every day . |
| 3 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 4 | Whyte , recruited with Chris Morris from Celtic for £1 million in August , said : ‘ Playing against top class forwards every week has improved my game . |
| 5 | The Labour party seems to reverse its policies on that issue twice every decade . |
| 6 | Because the Milk Marketing Board agrees to pay a fixed price regularly every month , most farmers keep a herd of dairy cows . |
| 7 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 8 | After several weeks in this empty terrain I began to reassess , or at least seriously question , the very nature of landscape painting of the usual sort where every prospect pleases . |
| 9 | How often she had passed them , in rain and shine , on the summer evenings in the dust and diesel , on the white snow where every step portended a snapped ankle . |
| 10 | It is a vital part of the written records that the exact place where every find was discovered is noted , particularly important because finds can yield a great deal of information . |
| 11 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 12 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 13 | So I would go down there and that 's where I got hip to Van Halen , because all the kids were playing the stupid Eruption solo every day . |
| 14 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 15 | This is one good reason why every State should publish all the accident reports it raises — some other airline quite remote from the one in question may avoid a similar disaster if the details of an accident and the necessary corrective action are made available to all who care to take the trouble to read about them . |
| 16 | This little drama — and other scenes like it — is played out method-acting style almost every day in this particular household . |
| 17 | In 1826 the Hall , Lowthorpe 's ancient manor , was demolished and later replaced by Lowthorpe Lodge which the St Quintin family used mainly as a shooting lodge , swelling the population of the small village greatly every summer with their visiting shooting parties . |
| 18 | There also needs to be collective approach so every union worker in this section rejects the present derisory offer and builds on a campaign run by the Fire Brigade Union . |
| 19 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
| 20 | I have a good job , a flat , a car , a mortgage , I take at least one holiday abroad every year , I have plenty of friends , life is full of possibilities . |
| 21 | His rapport with the Wagner household comes across vividly from letters to Rohde in the late summer of 1869 : " Just recently I 've paid four visits there in quick succession and a letter takes wing in the same direction almost every week " ; " On the visit before last , during the night , a baby boy called Siegfried was born . |
| 22 | I feel the brunt of unwarranted anti-dog prejudice almost every day . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between . |
| 24 | Short hair is surprisingly versatile and , as these styles prove , you can give yourself a new look virtually every day of the week ! |
| 25 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 26 | Iceland Frozen Foods — opening a new store almost every week — rang up a 19 per cent RISE to £24,200,000 |
| 27 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 28 | As the word spread that potatoes were a very good food to eat people 's reluctance to include potatoes in their diet was overcome and by the end of the 18th Century almost every country in Europe had accepted this knobbly brown tuber as part of their everyday diet . |
| 29 | And I knew from experience that in the ten to fourteen days during wastage of muscle tissue prior to an operation , a patient should normally suffer intense pain almost every hour of every one of those days . |
| 30 | ( a ) The Senior Partner Almost every firm sees the need to have a figureheadand , because of the need to name partners on the notepaper , every firm will be perceived as having a senior partner , however democratic the instincts of its members . |