Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 2 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |
| 3 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 4 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 5 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 6 | Grindal worm are a dwarf form of white worm , which they look like , except that they only reach a length of half an inch . |
| 7 | No but they did n't use it for they did n't have a license then , they only got a license after the war you see . |
| 8 | ‘ We believe they only had a couple of gallons of fuel aboard . |
| 9 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 10 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 11 | Wandsworth where they only had a majority of one , they they they they destroyed the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Perhaps Councillors in Oxford should be grateful that they only had a shark and a pair of legs to get upset about . |
| 13 | They only had a week . |
| 14 | I mean they do n't take they only take a board up where they put it on to erm put it leading through and er where they bring it out . |
| 15 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |
| 16 | Most of the council estate dwellers I meet do n't — they only want a council house they could like and feel some control over . |
| 17 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 18 | ‘ But they beat the GW , ’ said my companion , ‘ for they only provide a twenty-inch corridor ’ . |
| 19 | If the agreement satisfied all the requirements of a tenancy , then the agreement produced a tenancy and the parties can not alter the effect of the agreement by insisting that they only created a licence . |
| 20 | A spokesman for PPL said that many hoteliers and restaurateurs believe that they only need a licence from the PRS to be fully covered . |
| 21 | ‘ They only live a day , ’ said a loony from the next table . |
| 22 | They only strengthen a cream 's film-forming abilities , trapping more moisture in your skin . |
| 23 | The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’ |
| 24 | Instead of the 125mph Class 89 prototype , an order was placed in January 1986 for twenty-nine Class 90 locomotives but they only have a potential of 110mph . |
| 25 | Kitchens that were tiled so that they only needed a wipe down the walls and a quick mop of the floor . |
| 26 | What if they only pay a pound an hour , are only part-time , I only get twenty pounds a week ? |
| 27 | Now , independent taxation means that th that you 've both got an allowance of fourteen thousand two hundred before age allowance is abated , but for teachers who 're you know retired early , er some years ago , and they perhaps got a pension for themselves , a pension for their wife , then obviously when they got to sixty five , quite ou because it was calculated as a , as er one total , it actually abated their allowance quickly . |
| 28 | Though an electric car itself may be an inefficient machine , with a battery , electric motor and transmission system , all of which are individually efficient , the car requires electricity from a plug in the garage to charge up its batteries and the Electricity Generating Board and Power Stations are themselves inherently inefficient and they perhaps introduce a fact of only thirty percent into the overall conversion of primary fuel , that is coal , oil , gas , or nuclear , into electricity . |
| 29 | They perhaps kill a pig , you know , roughly this size or , we have killed them up to thirty four stone , yeah , each . |
| 30 | The problem with value measurements is that they necessarily have a price and quantity component and it is not always easy to separate the two . |