Example sentences of "[to-vb] one [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. C 's service contract will allow him to work one day a week on non — [ ] Plc/ABC business , provided he does not work in an employment in competition with [ ] Plc or ABC or their subsidiaries . |
| 2 | Though there was a lot to do , Clare , busy redecorating the shop and visiting wholesalers to buy stock , still managed to work one evening a week for the Movement . |
| 3 | Six ‘ pounders ’ were purchased , so that the able-bodied men in the workhouse could be employed in the bruising of bones for use in the glue factory ; each man was to process one hundredweight a day . |
| 4 | The financial solution for all lower-division clubs was to sell one player a year , he said . |
| 5 | She may consider it rather selfish of him to want to reserve one day a week for his own personal pleasure . |
| 6 | On one title we recently advised we are looking to save one week a month on the production cycle and , eventually , reduce their annual typesetting budget by £200,000 . |
| 7 | Oh yes , not necessarily religious grounds I agree with you , it 's just nice to have one day a week where everything is peaceful . |
| 8 | They were placed under the supervision of a senior student , Richard Lawrence of Birmingham , who was to have one guinea a week and board and accommodation at the expense of the College . |
| 9 | no I just did n't want anything , I do n't , I do n't bother I , I mean I only used to have one meal a day before . |
| 10 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 11 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |