Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [det] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They jumped less than a week later , at Luton Hoo on 28 May 1941 , under cover of a supposed air-raid jointly organized by XU and some elements of the Luftwaffe . |
| 32 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 33 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 34 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 35 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 36 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 37 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 38 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 39 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 40 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 41 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 42 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 43 | It takes more than a shoestring to keep an essential component of the economy strong , say the Met , and other institutions concur . |
| 44 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 45 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 46 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 47 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 48 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 49 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 50 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 51 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |
| 52 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 53 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 54 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 55 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 56 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |
| 57 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |
| 58 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 59 | He stood less than a yard from his victim , but she did not look up . |