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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 did get them better a lot of them at any rate .
6	Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again .
7	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 .
8	Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week .
9	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 .
10	Everyone benefited from knowing them so a spot of poaching was not held against them .
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room .
14	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 .
15	I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven !
16	Can I just a minute , because I 've got the same feeling .
17	Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me .
18	Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ?
19	Yet had I hardly a foothold there .
20	I really a word , and they had a little chat to us .
21	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 ?
22	" 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 ! "
23	Am I simply a lesbian ?
24	‘ Am I simply a substitute for Jeanne ? ’
25	When he called off his fast a week later , a pro-government newspaper headlined its story ‘ Maquio ends his diet ’ .
26	Not only was this behaviour upsetting for anyone hearing it , but it gave my walking partner and I quite a scare .
27	No I never A wife swop ?
28	If he did n't hear me go outside , he wo n't hear me open a can or two , will he ?
29	But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves .
30	When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite .