Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | could you leave my tea-bag in there a bit longer , . |
2 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
3 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
4 | You 're my ideal of how a man should be … ’ |
5 | I refused to see my counsellor for almost a month . |
6 | No , cos I I have n't used my camera for over a year and it 's been fucking flung out from S A and all sorts . |
7 | Within a mere fifteen minutes , the new rental car with 1500 miles on the clock — and had only had in my possession for under an hour — was a burnt out shell . |
8 | Jenny my guest at about a quarter past eleven . |
9 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
10 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
11 | Following their success with both A Room with a View and Maurice , Ismail Merchant and James Ivory complete their E M Forster hat-trick in customary style . |
12 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
13 | They continued on their journey for nearly an hour without another word . |
14 | Meg sat over her letter for nearly an hour , crossing out line after line , and neatly copying her final version like a schoolchild . |
15 | Her step slowed and she was about to turn round to voice some rejoinder but continued on , gripping the child 's hand hard now and stepping up her walk into almost a trot . |
16 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
17 | Thus his/her appreciation of perhaps a landscape , but the dismissal of , say , a Pollock or Mondrian . |
18 | You can make it different like and make it sort of still a dance area . |
19 | The electronic cheep from the alarm chiselled into his skull at precisely a quarter to seven . |
20 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
21 | Lt. Stirling injured his spine and also lost his sight for about an hour . |
22 | Well away from the beaten track he laid her gently on a bed of moss and bracken , and she opened her arms to him , loath to lose his touch for even a second . |
23 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
24 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
25 | Vogts has recalled 32-year-old Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder , Uwe Bein , who played in the 1990 World Cup , into his squad after nearly a year out of the reckoning . |
26 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
27 | on top of the telly , and say just put your foot on here a minute , now , they look quite thin now , but , that 's what I was looking at , yeah , cos her feet are fat , yeah , but they , that do like that do n't they ? |
28 | No , do n't , I just want you to put your foot on there a minute . |
29 | You can , of course , connect your spur into either a ring or radial circuit cable direct , using a 30amp three-terminal junction box . |
30 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |