Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as we realized we had such tremendous support and you know er right we 'll give this a go and we 're gon na win . |
| 2 | Was this a hint that he 'd had enough of her company for tonight ? |
| 3 | This is as faithful a reproduction as I have seen , except that I remember the ghosts being eatable for a lot longer than they are here . |
| 4 | You might be able to have half a bicycle if you share it with somebody else , but there is not way of having a thirtieth of a bicycles . |
| 5 | He gave me the thumbs up sign , half a wink and I marched head high to the door . |
| 6 | two lots of soup and there 'll be , it wo n't be a full bowl for you tomorrow , but there 'll be about half a bowl unless you want it now ? |
| 7 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 8 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 9 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 10 | It was nearly half a minute before we took in the situation , and then it was too ludicrous . |
| 11 | Like the horrid man in Hampstead ( he was one of them ) who said , I 'll give you half a dollar if you can prove it does n't go into someone 's pocket . |
| 12 | The image of the island is to be found and cherished , above all , in the stories it has told about itself , and perhaps believed of itself , for nearly half a century since it emerged into the troubled and hungry peace of 1945 . |
| 13 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 14 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 15 | We ran flat out for half a mile before we could throw them off . ’ |
| 16 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 17 | It was half a mile before he accelerated level with the Montego in front . |
| 18 | He had to drink half a bottle before they dared even ask him a question . ’ |
| 19 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 20 | Each of the six weighed half a kilo so I was glad John came to meet me on arrival . |
| 21 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 22 | It was half a year before she saw him again . |
| 23 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 24 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 25 | There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look . |
| 26 | for half a moment before he dives |
| 27 | so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year |
| 28 | We 've only got half a side and we need you . |
| 29 | The 39th issue Savings Certs pay 6.75 per cent tax free a year if you leave the money invested for five years . |
| 30 | You are as free a man as I am , we do but agree over the hire of a courier . |