Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 2 | ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances . |
| 3 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 4 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 5 | You have n't owned it for over a year . |
| 6 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |
| 7 | But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 9 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 10 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 11 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 12 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 13 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 14 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 15 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 16 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 17 | Erm he 's had it for about a week and a half now . |
| 18 | She owed him at least a chance to explain , and decided to drop into his offices on her way to the shop . |
| 19 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
| 20 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 21 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 22 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 23 | First , major constitutional and political pronouncement though it was , certain to be studied and analysed for years to come , he delivered it with hardly a note . |
| 24 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 25 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 26 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 27 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 28 | Termination of the agreement by the HP finance company if the consumer stopped paying was allowed only if he had disregarded a default notice allowing him at least a week to pay up . |
| 29 | I 'm taking him for about an hour . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |