Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 2 | I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat . |
| 3 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 4 | This is especially true of those , often identified as burgi , which protected only a very small part of the settlement ( p. 35 below ) ; but even where larger areas were enclosed , most included only a fraction of the total , as for example at Catterick , Ilchester and Water Newton , where the inhabited extra-mural areas extended for considerable distances . |
| 5 | First , there is the prison itself , as a physical entity — apparently given only a very minor role in the classical model . |
| 6 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 7 | On the other side of the coin you might find a child who is experiencing such difficulties in his learning that the first line of attack must be in , in terms of perhaps producing just an improvement of his base level of learning , so that the next step can be taken . |
| 8 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 9 | Maggie only stopped about an hour this morning , she 's not feeling well . |
| 10 | I think Doctor only sits once a month , and |
| 11 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 12 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 13 | You obviously made quite an impression personally at the time . |
| 14 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 15 | I said he said yes sh with , with her , when she was first married , but she only lived there a couple of months . |
| 16 | Edouard looked up in surprise , and the boy eagerly drew forward a chair . |
| 17 | This is made worse by the fact that few butchers hang their lamb these days , despite the fact that it only needs about a week to bring on the flavour . |
| 18 | Long considered only a maker of images , it is quite apparent from the Hayward Gallery 's exhibition that he is a craftsman of extraordinary technical facility , capable of luscious passages of brushwork , occasionally using thick impasto for expressive effects and employing his own distinctive and changing palette . |
| 19 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 20 | There will be no climbing or hill-walking involved and you 'll only need about an hour to complete it and hand in your finished Puzzle . |
| 21 | Please remember that you can only appeal once a year . |
| 22 | The two enclaves did not share a common border , but together occupied about a third of Croatian territory and included 300,000 people . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 24 | Jerrome ( 1982 ) has explored the significance of a confidante for older women in maintaining life satisfaction , even if that person is only seen once a year . |
| 25 | I know of one Free Range Producer in East Anglia whose eggs are only collected once a week . |
| 26 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 27 | Cos if the steamer only came once a week that would n't have been enough . |
| 28 | on the phone cos we only speak once a week , well I do n't think |
| 29 | Meredith , bearing in mind Harriet 's warning that this horse might kick , prudently moved away a little . |
| 30 | At the same time , the Cobham Fellowship itself formed five smaller congregations from the one large group , only meeting twice a month as one church . |