Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 2 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 3 | It was Urquhart , telling her to meet him in half an hour outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 4 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |
| 5 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 6 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 7 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 8 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 9 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 10 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 11 | I 'll see you in half an hour at the end of the session . " |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll see you in half an hour . |
| 13 | I 'll see you in half an hour , then , ’ Travis said , and left . |
| 14 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 15 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 16 | But Charlton joint manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ They slaughtered us for half an hour — but only half an hour . |
| 17 | I 'll meet you in half an hour . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 19 | And they either say go and read the paper mum , I 'll call you in half an hour . |
| 20 | Rhythm , the primary revelation of Indian music for Glass , preoccupied him to such an extent that one of his pieces at this time , Play , consisted of two lines for soprano saxophones. each instrument using only two notes . |
| 21 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 22 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 23 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 24 | Once you have become used to the exercise you will find that it helps you on many an occasion when you feel tension mounting within you . |
| 25 | She was n't used to expressing such volatility in front of anyone , and it confounded her how a total stranger , and a man she disliked into the bargain , was able to stir her to such an extent . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 27 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 28 | It 's only thirty-seven or thirty-eight miles to Stratford — and Lewis here once managed it in half an hour . ’ |
| 29 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 30 | Jim did it in half an hour . |