Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 2 | Erm but dad visits him quite a lot . |
| 3 | If society has the right to pass judgement , has it also the right to use the weapon of the law to enforce it ? |
| 4 | When you visit a club , why not ask the views of people who actually know something about the place and not some ageing promoter who only visits it once a month ? |
| 5 | He wants it twice a week . |
| 6 | His Elizabethan master had needed money intermittently , but he needs it nearly every day , certainly every week of the year . |
| 7 | Each day the retreatant has a few suggested passages given by his director who meets him once a day for sharing and reflection . |
| 8 | At the end Polyxena looks back as Akamas leads her away a prisoner . |
| 9 | Well I think Lee , he , he just realise , I mean I mean he only sees her once a week any way , does n't he ? but you know , she is , she is a lovely girl |
| 10 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 11 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 12 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 14 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 15 | Takes me about an hour to get it out of her . |
| 16 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 18 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 19 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 20 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 21 | I 'm serious about that , it grieves me greatly the possibility that he may not hear what the patch has to say . |
| 22 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 23 | I knit with a Brother 830 and enjoy it very much , I also look forward to your magazine each month which helps me quite a lot . |
| 24 | Well it it tells you quite a lot , but it does n't actually mention that bit . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 26 | This distribution , considered along with within-group variability , tells us quite a lot about the relationship of group scores to individual scores , a matter of some interest to sociolinguists . |
| 27 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 28 | We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject . |
| 29 | It gives me quite a shock . |
| 30 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |