Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] every " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch , and kirsty said : ‘ We serve a variety of dishes every day as well as snacks , sandwiches and salads . |
| 2 | Jennie instructed Katharine to come across the diagonal and on each third canter stride to ask for a flying change , which would result , ( hopefully ! ) in a change of leg every fourth stride . |
| 3 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | For a moment they stared at each other , while the klaxon remorselessly threw out a yard and a half of raucousness every two seconds . |
| 5 | The only way we could get any sleep was by drinking about a tumbler of whisky every night . |
| 6 | ‘ The only way we could get any sleep was by drinking about a tumbler of whisky every night . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what it was all about six years ago , why you were a bundle of nerves every time I came anywhere near you — because you could n't cope with your feelings . |
| 8 | On single bed work , where a needle is tucking , it holds the last knitted stitch , plus collecting a loop of yarn every time , until these are all knitted off together when the needle is programmed next to knit . |
| 9 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 10 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 11 | I do n't know — nobody does , and I can not resist a smile of despair every time I see one of those gardening page headlines that advise us to ‘ prune those roses now ’ and such like . |
| 12 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 13 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 14 | To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event . |
| 15 | I have a 1964 IIA SWB and have fitted a secondhand overdrive , It uses about a pint of oil every 200 miles — is this normal ? |
| 16 | ‘ I feel in more of a muddle about politics every moment . ’ |
| 17 | BRITISH Telecom is putting £3 million a week in Scotland every week , its chairman , Iain Vallance , told the London dinner of Scottish Financial Enterprise last night . |
| 18 | The Chancellor often felt like a rare bird , he said , facing a barrage of flashbulbs every time he emerged from his Downing Street nest . |
| 19 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 20 | I have a sense of failure every time a bomb goes off , in Northern Ireland or here ; but more so here . |
| 21 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 22 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 23 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 24 | Perhaps he was just in the kind of trance he went into as a matter of course every time illness was discussed . |
| 25 | Right throughout the year we will attend er a number of bonfires every single month . |
| 26 | We plan to plant the seeds to improve a number of fisheries every year . ’ |
| 27 | In 1985 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimated that there was a shipment of waste every five minutes , 365 days a year . |
| 28 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 29 | It might be that in a list of names every tenth name is the leader of a section of ten people ; to sample by every tenth would then result in either a sample of nothing but leaders or a sample with no leaders at all . |
| 30 | If you 're keen on fishing , take a look at Fishbase , a program to database every facet of the sport to maximize performance . |