Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's perhaps a bit structurally ramshackle and thematically clichéed to merit such an accolade , and its good- versus-evil scenario draws extensively on the stock-in-trade of nineteenth-century battle music . |
| 2 | Some people reckon to do half an hour every day . |
| 3 | I would be grateful if you could let me know within six weeks whether your councillors wish to attend such an evening and if so how many representatives you will wish to send . |
| 4 | I get myself and everything ready , then just before we leave I breastfeed and change Alice — even if I 've done this an hour before . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that 's why I never win anything , I 've got such an intent to win when I ever I enter a competition , like I du n no . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got half an hour . ’ |
| 7 | That maybe the idea , but there are so many things to be done by voluntary workers if people would only say well I 've got half an hour an hour it could be so much of an advantage to whoever they 're giving their services to because we 're having to cut costs on this and costs on that an hour or two given voluntary would cover those jobs that we ca n't get the money to pay for . |
| 8 | Right we 've got half an hour so right what else do they build which they never used to build .. |
| 9 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 10 | I 've got half an aubergine and I 'm not going to make a veg pie anyway , it 's a beauty is n't it . |
| 11 | You 've had half an hour to think up another excuse , and — ’ |
| 12 | So I 've recorded half an hour of tape already up here . |
| 13 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 14 | The head has moved upright on its mountings , and the eyebrows have risen half an inch . |
| 15 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 16 | In response , recipients of the notice have to inform the company whether they have had such an interest and , if so , the nature of that interest . |
| 17 | For six years they have transformed half an acre of bleak Cotswold cottage garden into a celebration of vibrancy . |
| 18 | ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ helps anxiety sufferers to understand their condition and explains how they can get relief from their day to day worries with techniques which include allocating half an hour a day ‘ worry-time ’ and by using a combination of relaxation , breathing exercises and management of thoughts and actions . |
| 19 | Many older people will share my sadness that mounting pressures of nationalism and above all commercialism have consigned such an approach to the legends and myths of the past . |
| 20 | Does the unit in which you work have such an audit system ? |