Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is unwise to lay claim to there being a natural history of marriage when there are so many individual variations , there is a discernible ebb and flow in the tide of a couple 's life together which forms a pattern . |
| 2 | Perhaps she has a point . |
| 3 | So even if you did n't have a protractor , I mean if you wanted to be really fussy and find out exactly you could measure it and say , ooh that 's actually , it 's not eighty that 's seventy nine and this is a hundred and one so she spends a pound and a penny on sweets and she saves seventy nine . |
| 4 | so she does a lot of flower arrangements and that privately |
| 5 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 6 | Her taste for light food has increased with age and so she cooks a lot with vegetables ( which she also likes for their strong colours ) , although supplies of fresh produce are sometimes limited in North Wales . |
| 7 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 8 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 9 | ‘ So who wants a doctor with dirty hands , ’ said Eugene and agreed to rest up . |
| 10 | So who gives a damn about you guys ? |
| 11 | Obviously one wants a language which enables this without demanding a lot of effort merely to be learnt and used at all . |
| 12 | Certainly there is no trick to it , for the oftener one plays a thing through , the better it goes , and even the poorest conductors profit from this . |
| 13 | So one has a set of events , a region of space-time , from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer . |
| 14 | The costs seem to be controlled but suddenly there becomes a demand for more and more money . |
| 15 | ( Suddenly he has a heart attack ) |
| 16 | Now I promise you if you do as we tell you and your diary looks like , my white board if you like , every week for the next sort of twenty eight days , you will be successful , because if you do something consistently for twenty eight days , apparently it becomes a habit . |
| 17 | I was recently offered a second-hand hard drive — apparently it has a capacity of 33Mb , but I do n't know much else about it . |
| 18 | ‘ Apparently he knows a lot about Mills ’ time in Six . ’ |
| 19 | Apparently he has a history of COADs — chronic obstructive airways disease . |
| 20 | it slows down it drops a lot of the silt , mud and rocks . |
| 21 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
| 22 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 23 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 24 | Perhaps he wants a tip ? |
| 25 | Perhaps he wants a drink now . |
| 26 | Obviously it takes a lot longer to do . |
| 27 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 28 | So he helps a hell of a lot . |
| 29 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 30 | So he has a drink , talks to the barman , starts dancing and has a good time all at the ‘ club ’ . |