Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've enjoyed it quite a lot . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 3 | He said it 's you know it 's it 's it 's not easily done but he 's seen them quite a lot . |
| 4 | a week and he has n't phoned me once a year |
| 5 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 6 | Years at an English public school , punctuated by all-too-brief holidays in Italy , had made him almost a stranger within his family . |
| 7 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 8 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 9 | SUMMERCHILD : Well , I 've noticed it quite a lot these past few months . |
| 10 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 11 | ‘ So you could have saved yourself half an hour by going there . ’ |
| 12 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 13 | ‘ I was watching that nun talking to you — it seems to have given you quite a turn . ’ |
| 14 | This book has given you quite a bit of practical advice — things to actually DO . |
| 15 | He 's had them quite a bit these last few days , they seem to come like that do n't they ? |
| 16 | Yeah he 's debauched himself quite a lot judging by his voice . |
| 17 | Well we 've had it over a year , it 's probably had its natural life . |
| 18 | They seem to have got it together a bit more . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've had yourself quite a time , ’ Nathan observed . |
| 20 | Look — I 've brought you both a present … ‘ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd have thought your Brian could have found you somewhere a bit more comfortable , ’ interposed Mrs Harper , seeing her opportunity of introducing Brian to his disadvantage , ‘ he must know a few folk , it 's not only money that counts . … ’ |
| 22 | We should have driven her home an hour ago . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have brought him quite a way ? ’ |
| 24 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 25 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 26 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 27 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 28 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 29 | Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money . |
| 30 | Eva said it had taken them nearly a month to get booked up . |