Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 2 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 3 | This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals . |
| 4 | He came here as quite a young man , perhaps twelve , fourteen years ago , but we never knew anything about him , where he came from , who is parents were . |
| 5 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 6 | The profit of the company is partially shared with employees and a payment made once or twice a year . |
| 7 | Two men walked thankfully and possibly a little luckily from court ; the other two dejectedly to their cells . |
| 8 | The adventurous side of Kylie 's spirit eventually triumphed though and just a few months after her exams another audition was being set up . |
| 9 | School holidays started soon and maybe a pet would help to keep them out of mischief . |
| 10 | They then persuaded the 8 highest scorers on their questionnaires who " dreamed every night " , as well as the 8 lowest scorers , who " dreamed less than once a month " to submit to laboratory recordings and wakenings during the night . |
| 11 | All went well until suddenly a drive-shaft cover came loose and shot across the room , leaving a small hole through which the gas began to spurt . |
| 12 | TO PREPARE MYSELF for this latest , and biggest Grudge Match , I run through the list of my opponent 's useful weaknesses : over-caution , middle-pocket anxiety , last-six-colours angst , plus a Plutonic rage whenever snookered more than once a frame . |
| 13 | This involved repeating various commands given by Sergeant Moustaine , which was difficult as he spoke fast and only a third of our Section spoke French . |
| 14 | I took a firmer grip , squeezed tightly and immediately a cloven foot shot out like a whip lash and smacked me solidly on the knee . |
| 15 | Disclose directors ' interests in the following transactions : loans , quasi-loans , credit transactions and indirect arrangements agreement to enter into such transactions any other transactions or arrangements in which a director had directly or indirectly a material interest . |
| 16 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 17 | The further they went into the forest the more it seemed as though the village behind , with Fat Watt and Diggory the King 's man and the priest , represented the enemy , and the miles and miles of trees she had formerly and still a little feared had become a sort of sanctuary , a hiding place . |
| 18 | But when the make do and mend clubs were told that even worn out soft collars and shirt cuffs would make maps for tank commanders , they responded well and over a thousand tons of rag was collected between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three . |