Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 2 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 3 | ‘ There was no way I should have got out of that with just a scratch and a few bruises . |
| 4 | R. S. Wood himself , occupying a central position in more senses than one , wished to see a transfer of all pupils at the age of eleven to a common secondary school , followed by transfer for a selected minority at the age of thirteen to either a grammar or a technical school . |
| 5 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 7 | One , which includes mosaics of the more specific trend , features many neatly executed arrangements from each of only a handful of sites . |
| 8 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 9 | Mr Tholen , aged 67 , was appointed to the post in 1988 after almost a decade as chief executive of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority . |
| 10 | Tucked behind the douce elegance of India Street , this quaint little building was from 1915 until recently a wine importer 's warehouse . |
| 11 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 12 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |