Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] every " in BNC.
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1 | Was you getting funny cos I ai n't come to a party every week ? |
2 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
3 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
4 | These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged . |
5 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |
6 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
7 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
8 | As with an analogue signal , if the distance involved is very great it will need to be processed by a repeater every so often . |
9 | Sliding open the door to the en-suite bathroom , she was faced with a room every line and angle of which was tiled in glistening white and amply provided with mirrors , giving the impression of a chapel carved out of snow . |
10 | The blood was blotted with a filterpaper every 10 s until no blood appeared on the paper . |