Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 2 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 3 | STANDARD LEVEL OF SERVICE : These amounts are the Government 's view , for the purpose of sharing out Government Standard Spending Grant ( see next note ) , of the appropriate level of spending for the authorities in your area to enable them to provide broadly a standard level of service , taking into account the particular circumstances of the area . |
| 4 | Students will appreciate the word-list ( over 800 terms with a phonetic transcription ) and the index of grammar exercises which enables them to find immediately a range of exercises on a number of key grammar points . |
| 5 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 6 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 7 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 8 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 9 | I cite only a few . |
| 10 | I back away a bit , and kneel down . |
| 11 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 12 | And , of course , all the daytime activities and evening entertainments of Cala Mesquida Village are yours to enjoy just a short walk away . |
| 13 | I mean just a friendly little party . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean just a few different should you use a little bit of green powder paint . |
| 15 | mhm Well I think it can go from anything , I mean just a vague feeling of suddenly being put off what you 're talking about because you 've suddenly become conscious of how you 're looking . |
| 16 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 17 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
| 18 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 19 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 20 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 21 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 22 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 23 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 24 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 26 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 27 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 28 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 29 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 30 | I got quite a few things in there . |