Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 2 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
| 3 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 4 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 6 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 7 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 8 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 9 | ‘ Have n't you found me rather a good audience ? ’ |
| 10 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 11 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 12 | In view of the central position of the egg and sperm cell in reproductive biology , we need to look at them in a little more detail . |
| 13 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 14 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 15 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 16 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 17 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 18 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 19 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 20 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 21 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 22 | No , take them down a bit |
| 23 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 24 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 25 | On many occasions a small group of children will be playing with cars , either running them down an incline ( a plank resting on a block ) or pushing them up . |
| 26 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |
| 27 | Better to have only 1,000 farmers at an event , but almost all of them intimately involved with growing a particular crop , the logic runs , than 10,000 farmers of whom only a small proportion will be interested in particular machines . |
| 28 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 29 | Of course , there are those young people whom only a parent could love . |
| 30 | Dinah Arkwright had laid her elegant black-gloved hand on the sleeve of a stocky young man with a short beard , whom only a few could name . |