Example sentences of "[verb] [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 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 3 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 4 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 5 | After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea . |
| 6 | The Half House met them round a corner , and Mary Rose exclaimed . |
| 7 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 8 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 9 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 10 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 11 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 12 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 13 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
| 14 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 15 | Should eat them about a quarter at a time . |
| 16 | You made me completely a woman |
| 17 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 18 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 19 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 20 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 21 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 22 | In a new project with the local community the pupils from Rydon School , Storrington , undertook a community programme whereby they were allocated a Sussexdown resident and visited them twice a month . |
| 23 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 24 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 25 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 26 | Shall we discuss them over a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ) |
| 28 | My mum helped me out a bit , but not everyone has parents who will help . |
| 29 | knocking them back a bit |
| 30 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |