Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That spend a proper sum of money on we spent a lot more but we do n't District Councils hundred thousand each . |
| 2 | I think , a lot of it , you know I was burning a bit so I think a lot of it was sort of it thinking about that blooming boiler . |
| 3 | More positively , the Labour Party 's spokesman has suggested , among other things , that auditors should inform the Department of Trade and Industry whenever they qualify a set of accounts . |
| 4 | In September 1934 the USSR had joined the League of Nations , and six months later they signed a pact with France . |
| 5 | Then a few months later we got a phone call from him asking myself and the singer to come out to Britain , and so we came out . |
| 6 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 7 | Five months later I have a friend and companion who will never be sold or replaced ; a friend who knows more about Clare than anyone else . |
| 8 | Then little invisible tadpole things in the pee swam through the bathwater up the woman 's bottom and laid eggs , and six months later she had a baby . |
| 9 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 10 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 11 | Three months later he sent a proof of Offensive from Q Quasar 13 . |
| 12 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 13 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 14 | David Speedy 's eighth goal of the season he 's top scorer here he got a couple in the last home game against Notts County and that was as Ron perfectly described it a real predator in action there . |
| 15 | done the work and they just , just a couple of months ago we got a letter taking him to court . |
| 16 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 17 | I had a very gory accident with a shopping trolley , but the gash in my leg has healed beautifully , and about two months ago I had a cataract removed ( local anaesthetic : all the rage these days and an absolute doddle ) . |
| 18 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 19 | SOME months ago I saw a television documentary on hostels for young homeless people in London . |
| 20 | Six months ago I acquired a Rottie and can honestly say I am absolutely delighted with my dog . |
| 21 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 22 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 23 | If you want to obtain a higher level of compensation cover than the basic £20 then we have a range of services available . |
| 24 | After being based at El Paso , Texas , in 1989 the aircraft was flown to the Liberal Air Museum in Kansas where it became a part of the Museum 's static display on a loan basis . |
| 25 | ‘ Of all the things I was taught at school , this sticks in my mind more that anything , ’ said Christine Cooper when she wrote to tell us of her reaction to an article in MKM. that was last spring when we published a newsletter from Christine Morey telling of her adventures in Romania . |
| 26 | Scientists at IBM 's Almaden research centre in San Jose , California , gave a dramatic example of this last spring when they released a picture of 35 xenon atoms arranged to spell their company 's name on the surface of a nickel crystal . |
| 27 | If the cricket analogy is appropriate , then Saunders was hit for six during much of his ill-fated spell at Anfield where he became a scapegoat for the club 's ills . |
| 28 | The full enormity of the charade hit her a week before the wedding when she attended a rehearsal at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 29 | The public glimpsed her frustration and desperation the weekend before the wedding when she left a polo field at Tidworth in floods of tears . |
| 30 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |