Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only did about an hour 's work , that 's all I did . |
| 2 | You know , like I really do n't I , I just thought perhaps a note from me you know , apologizing . |
| 3 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |
| 4 | there 's no extra labour , I normally charge about a hundred and thirty pound for each wing , that 's two hundred and sixty er eighty pound for the bonnet , well about a hundred pound for the bonnet , that 's three hundred and sixty then er , forty five quid for the slam pan , that 's it |
| 5 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , since the intimacy of our initial introduction , I already know quite a lot . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I once gave away a dog that did that . ’ |
| 9 | I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year , to this day . |
| 10 | I usually have quite a lot of homework on Wednesday nights . |
| 11 | I also caused quite a stir as Moby Dick , and pulled pints as the fat barman at the Dog & Duck in Stratford — well , they ca n't all be famous ! |
| 12 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 13 | That is to say , I earn a lot , but I also give quite a lot away in different ways . |
| 14 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 15 | You are seeking ideas whenever you invite someone else to put forward an idea about a possible course of action . |
| 16 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 17 | I therefore put quite a lot of effort into trying to get rid of this embarrassing effect . |
| 18 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 19 | For example , I recently made quite a serviceable Market Harborough from an old pair of continental reins and a running martingale . |
| 20 | Dear Lord God , help me , help me not become today a murderer and a ravisher . |
| 21 | Customer Adviser Simon Davies said , ‘ We chose the Christmas theme because the bonus paid to Royal Reward account holders is the Bank 's present which only comes once a year . ’ |
| 22 | This commitment grew out of profound emotional changes over which he had no control , and of which he himself perhaps had only an imperfect knowledge . |
| 23 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 24 | He goes ah , no thanks , somebody just threw away a lovely corn on the cob . |
| 25 | To heat the oven we placed shavings and wood in between and around the tyres which usually took about an hour to heat sufficiently . |
| 26 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 27 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 28 | The watch was kept to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project which still has quite a lot of work to undertake but is sufficiently complete now to welcome visitors . |
| 29 | The word ‘ station ’ , which originally meant simply a stopping-place , has acquired over the years a more disciplinary , structural , and organizational connotation . |
| 30 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |