Example sentences of "[vb pp] a proper " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Yardley had re-used a proper cake box from a city bakery ; Mrs Doran , Miss Pinkney and Mrs Clancy had used their usual cake tins ; and Mrs Feather and Mrs Venables had used ordinary cardboard boxes . |
| 2 | The 1333–5 secession from Oxford , firstly to Northampton and then to Stamford , is factual , but the group of teachers and students was never sufficiently large or established to be considered a proper university . |
| 3 | The Council of the Law Society 's unfavourable reaction to critical reports was predictable but it is more interesting to note the strong sense of resentment that the profession should be considered a proper subject for such investigations . |
| 4 | Thomas Biggs , in his address to the Social Science Association in 1870 , complained that such a ‘ painful … topic is not considered a proper theme for discussion … by the great majority of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 5 | There was no W , since it was not reckoned a proper letter in its own right , but only a double U , which is how we pronounce it . |
| 6 | I mean cos we have n't really sort of really done a proper day of action have we ? |
| 7 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 8 | So it was that when the Hundred Years War began , although both the French and the English kingdoms had particular naval objectives which they needed to further for military reasons , neither could be said to have possessed a proper navy . |
| 9 | On another occasion , things did not go so well , ‘ for at each corner of each box they [ rats ] had made a proper hole for access and in each box was a warm nest of straw and the leaves and stalks of the shrubs . |
| 10 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 11 | The company had made a proper request to extend its facility . |
| 12 | ‘ They did n't know that he could n't have drawn a proper furrow let alone a real good 'un if he had n't got his owd pipe a-drawin' in his mouth ! |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone who can be bothered to see us will go away having watched a proper band . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone who can be bothered to see us will go away having watched a proper band . |
| 15 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 16 | I stuck them in a milk bottle cos I ai n't got a proper flower vase , but they look OK like that I reckon . |
| 17 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 18 | There is nothing more infuriating and destructive than having the discussion dominated by those who have not got a proper grasp of the subject because they have failed to read the material provided . |
| 19 | It has n't even got a proper floor . |
| 20 | It was only me got a proper |
| 21 | I do n't mean today I mean if she 's going in to London or something you know she 's got a base in London to do something in the morning before she goes on a call as opposed to some of them who have n't got a proper office space |
| 22 | Have you got a proper cuddle ? |
| 23 | Have you got a proper vinegar bottle ? |
| 24 | We have n't got a proper salad , I shall have to start ju , shall I leave salad ? |
| 25 | got a proper keyboard lead . |
| 26 | I , and he said he still , he has n't got a proper cooker or anything or |
| 27 | I 've not got a proper Christmas tree out am I ? |
| 28 | Yeah , we 've got a proper kitchen , we just have n't got |
| 29 | She is not very enthusiastic about the light rail proposals , but er she sees the park and ride as an excellent idea , but as she said , it 's not exactly inviting to leave your car in er a car park which is not necessarily big enough , which has n't got a proper surface , is n't properly lit , is n't supervised , has great big notices up that say there are thieves about , and where the bus service stops at half past six . |
| 30 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |