Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |
| 2 | If one possessed a $100 bill , and if the price level fell ten thousandfold overnight , one would wake up next morning to find oneself effectively a millionaire . |
| 3 | She kissed the balding patch on the back of his head as she clambered off the bed and went to the fridge to pour them both a drink . |
| 4 | But he said nothing of this , merely noted down her address , sighed a little at it , and made his latest recruit promise to visit him once a week with her piece . |
| 5 | Twies to visit it once a year , at the vewy least . |
| 6 | he is he 's hop hoping to open it probably a week at Christmas but I would tell people if they do go to wrap up warm because the heating is as original except for a sort of Aga stove in the kitchen which they use as their sort of central point to live in . |
| 7 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll hope to see you there a lot . |
| 9 | It 's just that your father and I … well , we thought he was a very pleasant young man , and he seemed to like you quite a lot . ’ |
| 10 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 11 | Neil and D. Davis did n't bother entering the comp so as to give everyone else a chance … and I ca n't really think of anyone who particularly merits a mention … oh , apart from Z-boy Fez who wore stripy skin tight trousers and looked ridiculous … do n't know the results — and hey ! |
| 12 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 13 | The musical flavour will be supplied by Edinburgh 's own Tam White and the Caledonian Brewery are laying on some of their amber liquid and pies to give you just a taste of what the atmosphere will be like during the weekend 13–15 August . |
| 14 | ‘ I simply meant somewhere for Jennifer to go on a regular basis for short periods of time simply to give you both a rest . |
| 15 | ‘ Somewhere that Jennifer could be cared for to give you both a break . ’ |
| 16 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 17 | And I honestly think that if you are going to give me that much , it 's probably easier for you to do it once a month . ’ |
| 18 | They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 20 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 21 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 22 | The only way you can have a reasonably fair assessment of weight loss if you are trying to lose weight is to weigh yourself once a week , on the same scales , at the same time of the day and preferably with no clothes on ! |
| 23 | ‘ He seemed to consider you quite a threat . |
| 24 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 25 | Philip went to see him twice a day , encouraged by Claudia , who hoped the child would make up to him for Eileen . |
| 26 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 27 | I can only afford to go to see him twice a week . |
| 28 | ‘ But understand , from my side , that I 'd like to see her once a fortnight , if it 's just for an hour , and that whatever holidays the other bairns have , she 's got to have the same . |
| 29 | No , my , my aunt was in York , we used to see her once a year , Christmas , she used to come |
| 30 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |