Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 2 | FILE option allows import of any data file in Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets up to version 3.0 , dBase , Symphony , Quattro , ascii or directly from the keyboard . |
| 3 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 4 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 5 | Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge . |
| 6 | It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea . |
| 7 | The hole extended a foot or so above the level of the ceiling , and then ended . |
| 8 | Dreadnought 's deck was still a foot or so above the tide . |
| 9 | When the water has almost filled the hole , to perhaps a foot or so below the top , there is an audible pause in the proceedings . |
| 10 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 11 | In other parts of the town , a kilometre or more from the vent , the ash fall was thinner and damage proportionally less . |
| 12 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 13 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 14 | Itching will begin within an hour or so of the invasion , and the vigorous scratching induced may well abort the attack . |
| 15 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 16 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 17 | High carbohydrate drinks will help refuel your muscles and will come in handy in the hour or so after the race if you are not able to eat anything . |
| 18 | An hour or so after the game , Dean had been interviewed for Rugby Special at the Parc des Princes . |
| 19 | An hour or so in the fridge is generally enough . |
| 20 | I used to take a couple of tablets an hour or so before the programme , to make sure there was no spasm during transmission . |
| 21 | and be confident in its ability to forecast future of how it flows , only at that stage then will be the liability or otherwise in the north south bypass be fully known as will also the role to be played by traffic management measures . |
| 22 | Members of the committee are entitled to receive any travelling expenses directly incurred by them or their representatives in attending at committee meetings or otherwise on the committee 's business ( r 6.164 ) . |
| 23 | Follow-up research has shown that 95% of all successful course members found at least hourly paid part-time teaching posts either after completion of the course or increasingly during the course . |
| 24 | It can determine that the trustee should be paid a percentage of the value of the assets realised and/or distributed , or by reference to the time spent by the trustee and his staff , and must have regard to the complexity or otherwise of the matter , any exceptional responsibility falling on the trustee , the trustee 's effectiveness and the value and nature of the assets dealt with by the trustee . |
| 25 | The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed . |
| 26 | I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words . |
| 27 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 28 | After twenty minutes or so with the list broker you start to see the world as he does . |
| 29 | When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’ |
| 30 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |