Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ) |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 3 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 4 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 5 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 6 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 7 | Of course , there are those young people whom only a parent could love . |
| 8 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |
| 10 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 20 | I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven ! |
| 21 | Can I just a minute , because I 've got the same feeling . |
| 22 | Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me . |
| 23 | Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ? |
| 24 | Yet had I hardly a foothold there . |
| 25 | I really a word , and they had a little chat to us . |
| 26 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 27 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 28 | Am I simply a lesbian ? |
| 29 | ‘ Am I simply a substitute for Jeanne ? ’ |
| 30 | I mean you mi then you might have said , well actually I want someone here a bit quicker and then they would have done something else . |