Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 2 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 3 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 4 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 5 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 6 | As expected , the decline in Syledis navigation was hastened by DGPS but Ray Morgan and his team in Aberdeen secured higher activity levels with DGPS on both a service and project basis . |
| 7 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 8 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 9 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 10 | A GO-KART bought to keep kids out of trouble has been stolen from a youth centre in Cardiff after just a week . |
| 11 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 12 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 13 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 14 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |
| 15 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 16 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 17 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 18 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 19 | She was she taught in Pennycook for quite a while , then she went down to Birmingham . |
| 20 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
| 21 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 22 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 23 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 24 | Henry III 's youngest sister married , in 1238 , Simon de Montfort , Earl of Leicester , who wanted royal policy to be controlled by a ‘ Parliament ’ with representatives from the larger towns , and he effectively kept Henry III and his son , captive at Lewes for over a year . |