Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing . |
| 2 | At first he had felt a little out of place , but had finally arranged to play football once a week with other members of the centre . |
| 3 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 4 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 5 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 6 | Men having intercourse once a day with an infected woman would become HIV-positive after an average of 33 months . |
| 7 | The prospectus will be released in the last week of May by brokers , Allied Provincial Securities Ltd , and the share placing should take place about a week to 10 days later . |
| 8 | But women having sex once a day with an HIV-infected man would on average become infected within a year , the study found . |
| 9 | One effort to foster communication between such groups of specialists took place over a week in Berlin at the end of last year . |
| 10 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 11 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |
| 12 | Ask kind neighbours or friends if they can mow the lawn if you are intending being away a couple of weeks or more . |
| 13 | The payment system has been oriented primarily to improving overall organization performance , by tightly coupling length of service to frequent promotion up a ladder of many small gradations . |
| 14 | But the commissioned research does flag up a number of interesting pointers to building a bigger core support . |
| 15 | Classes take place twice a week from 4.00pm to 6.00pm . |
| 16 | Staff meetings take place once a week for one to two hours and rotate between Tuesdays and Thursdays to ensure maximum attendance by part-time staff . |
| 17 | First , they help map out a profile of the client 's problems . |
| 18 | Master Parry , pray pardon also a summons at such short notice , but the case we have to judge concerns you nearly , and I make no doubt that your daughter 's wellbeing is your first anxiety . |
| 19 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 20 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |