Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 32 | These 20 hours are on top of the average 35 hours a week he spends in his regular job . |
| 33 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 34 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 35 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 36 | She pulled herself straight and directed into his sleepy eyes the look she usually reserved for teachers and principals . |
| 37 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 38 | Under these circumstances the process we know to be distributed across all of the input/output cell connections appears to be localized in one neuron . |
| 39 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 40 | The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up . |
| 41 | On three days a week we start off with a a staff meeting at 2.30 . |
| 42 | Well look at a miner I mean if he worked three days a week he might only get thirty shillings , in tho very very very seldom worked a full week . |
| 43 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 44 | The gods smile on those they intend to destroy , and within three days the parchment we bought up was carted down to de Macon 's cog and hoisted aboard . |
| 45 | The two planned by-elections gave the Protestant Unionists the opportunity they needed to maintain the momentum of their electoral challenge . |
| 46 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 47 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 48 | What do you think of the little hearts every time you put an enter ? |
| 49 | Now , so , the name of the actual Act of Parliament is Sale of Goods Act er and that 's the law that gives you and me and everybody in Britain our basic rights every time we buy something from a shop or in a sale or a market stall or by post through a mail order catalogue . |
| 50 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 51 | Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing . |
| 52 | We have a high level of expertise to give these children the education they need . |
| 53 | For a minority of educated , ambitious women the choice they were forced to make between marriage and work was an agonising one . |
| 54 | So there are plenty of ways of disposing of little amounts Every bit you dispose of from your capital every hundred pounds saves forty pounds in tax , if you 're at that sort of level . |
| 55 | For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher . |
| 56 | I was filming Neighbours five days a week and then two or three nights a week we were gigging . ’ |
| 57 | However , it seems we share a common purpose — to point out to our rebellious relatives the grief they are causing their families . |
| 58 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 59 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 60 | want you know the the key thing is to discover what how much work a week you know how many hours a week they think it 's going to take now that 's |