Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] every " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 2 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 3 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 4 | Although it is n't necessary for a person to have a bowel movement every day , regular movements should be encouraged . |
| 5 | To avoid having to place soft material under the feet of a loft ladder every time it 's used , stick a small piece of foam rubber or carpet underlay to each foot of the ladder . |
| 6 | Y'know , I just get a repeat prescription every week . |
| 7 | Moreover , criminal violence showed no signs of abating : statistics revealed that in 1972 , for example , there was in the United States a murder every 28 minutes , a rape every 11 minutes and a car theft every 36 seconds . |
| 8 | In the meantime I must live with the fact that I sweat like a Sun reader at a philosophy lecture every time my wheels crunch over someone else 's gravel . |
| 9 | A scene stealer every time . |
| 10 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 11 | as if you would have a polish day every Friday you could put it on Thursday night . |
| 12 | He had caught cold , or more likely , suffered from an allergy , Trent thought as he remarked the inflamed eyelids that shuttered the eyes and a nose drip that the thin man dipped into a linen handkerchief every half-a-minute — dip , dip , like a skinny waterbird feeding along the tideline . |
| 13 | ‘ But you ca n't tell me your hardworking pilots wear out a silk scarf every other week , so you do n't need new ones all the time . ’ |
| 14 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 15 | . And then soon after that , the rest day , the five day week came out you see , where you got a rest day every week . |
| 16 | HAVING lost four general elections I can understand the socialists being busy and trying to scare the electorate with a terror story every day . |
| 17 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 18 | At six , TV am started and there was a news round-up every fifteen minutes . |
| 19 | He has just enough to buy his materials , to live , to have a working holiday every year , to manage . |
| 20 | Other surveys have found that many parents , especially those who use public transport , do not want to turn children into commuters , dragging them to a workplace nursery every day . |
| 21 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 22 | Terry Bunce , from the Flying Club , tells me that they have a wings night every year for the new people , and as it was also the 25th anniversary of the Ulster Aviation Society they decided to invite the veterans along . |
| 23 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 24 | True , Emily 's mother was his own mother 's sister , but his sole contact with her was a book token every Christmas ; a token never quite generous enough for the book he wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ He had 18 months out of the game with a knee injury every bit as bad as Paul Gascoigne 's , and he 's done superbly to recover from it . |
| 26 | We did n't ask them to do Electric House because that would have meant that you 'd got ta have enough lines there to take a bus timing every half an hour because Witton , well every quarter of an hour really . |
| 27 | Instead , the level of judicial training that is provided for Crown Court judges , as for magistrates , is fairly rudimentary , consisting of a three-day seminar for new recruits , and a refresher seminar every five years once they are permanently appointed . |
| 28 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 29 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the elderly , sick and disabled should automatically receive a heating allowance every winter instead of having to go cap in hand to the Government ? |
| 30 | On average one person dies in a farm accident every week . |