Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
16 | I therefore put quite a lot of effort into trying to get rid of this embarrassing effect . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | For example , I recently made quite a serviceable Market Harborough from an old pair of continental reins and a running martingale . |
19 | Dear Lord God , help me , help me not become today a murderer and a ravisher . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | You obviously made quite an impression personally at the time . |
22 | ‘ She obviously gets quite a thrill from racing . |
23 | I said he said yes sh with , with her , when she was first married , but she only lived there a couple of months . |
24 | Good heavens , she only left here a week ago ! |
25 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
26 | Often I feel the consultant listens more to what the nurse says than to me , but she only comes once a month ; I 'm here all the time . |
27 | Can you go and get Leisha as well and Sarah OK , Leisha and Sarah OK James can you just go away a minute , away you go |
28 | ‘ Can you just come forward a few steps ? |
29 | Well I think , she said she was going down the shops , so I said ah can you just wait just a sec , I 'll go and get my wallet and I 'll be down she said not to worry she 'd got money anyway whe when I got there she bumped to Maggi and then you 'd gone and then |
30 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |