Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted $4500 for the job — once he had seen what it entailed — whereas because of the limited budget everyone else was on scale , amounting to a few hundred dollars . |
2 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
3 | ‘ I mean , I was an apprentice meself once . |
4 | Of course nothing remotely approaches the indulgent , yet time and time again Pollini characterises the music with an infinite subtlety which makes other interpretations appear almost cosmetic in comparison : listen to how gently he coaxes ( never caresses ! ) the opening phrases of and you 'll hear what I mean . |
5 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
6 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
7 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
8 | This includes those who are temporarily between jobs and drawing unemployment benefit to tide them over until the new job is taken up . |
9 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
10 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
11 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
12 | And er to try and tide them over . |
13 | Erm to keep them to tide them over . |
14 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
15 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
16 | For example , during a recession , a large firm will commit itself to its suppliers and subcontractors for continued orders to tide them over . |
17 | If you lend me some to tide me over . ’ |
18 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
19 | I went to the National Gallery and offered to sell the two Paul Klees I had carried with me , to tide me over . |
20 | I will have wages to tide me over initially . ’ |
21 | A little to tide me over , I gather . ’ |
22 | It would n't be much , but would maybe tide me over till I could find something better . |
23 | PREVIOUSLY FILMED at least four times , James Fenimore Cooper 's 1826 novel is one of those cornerstones of American literature no-one actually reads . |
24 | Still got all the homework to do , well my German , my cooking nothing else . |
25 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
26 | If you buy defence everyone else gets the benefits . |
27 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
28 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
29 | It 's a trick I never learnt . |
30 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |