Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 4 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 5 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 6 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 7 | ‘ Have n't you found me rather a good audience ? ’ |
| 8 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 9 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |
| 10 | British socialism , so alien to the American way of life , was to them only a short step away from communism , which they feared would engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 11 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 12 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 13 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 14 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 15 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 16 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 17 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 18 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 19 | When describing what health means to them personally a different set of explanatory frameworks appear to be invoked ( Table 6.2 ) . |
| 20 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 21 | ‘ You would have seen them together a fair bit and it 's just so sad this should happen while they were on holiday . ’ |
| 22 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 23 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 24 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 25 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 26 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven ! |
| 30 | Is this normal or am I just a good driver ? |